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Originally Posted by Aces4
.... traditional Medicare allows VERY little for a brief office visit. The physician has booked time that could have gone to a patient who pays a normal fee plus he has overhead for the medical assistant or nurse, room set up and cleaning afterward, office rent, malpractice insurance, supplies and on and on.
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Yes, indeed.....you made my point. It's like empty airplane seats are 100% lost revenue for the airline just as the open calendar spots are lost $$ for a Doc.
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If one feels their Dr. or their mother's Dr. are fake billing shysters, why would one continue or allow their mother to continue with that physician?
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She chose her Doctor, lived hours away from me and he was otherwise capable. Maybe you would force your parent to do something but, I would not unless it was a danger. I got no indication of that.
She solved it by not returning for unneeded follow-ups. (Plus, who says the next Doc wouldn't do the same?)
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I am sorry to hear your mother ended up in a skilled nursing facility but if you felt she was being poorly served by the Medical Director, why wasn't she removed from the facility?
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And I am sorry that you continue to conflate things erroneously. It seems to be a habit and only creates negative interactions and faulty assumptions.
Here's the reality, she DID get pulled from there when I figured out what was going on. While my 3 brothers were clueless about it all and the one that was her caretaker and had all the POAs was largely AWOL. (Note to all: don't
ever give one person all the POAs) They overbilled her for 10s of thousands and were feeding her too many sedatives - like they do most of the inmates. He never got the $$ back. It was atrocious.
We can end this here. I'm not interesting in dialoguing with anyone who wantonly conjures and believes things that aren't factual.