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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 12:23 PM
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Is there any way to tie a requirement for a reduction in Medicare fraud to the restoration of fees
Edited on Tue Jul-15-08 12:23 PM by RGBolen
to doctors? As in they stop stealing as much from Medicare and we'll give the 10% cut in fees back to them?
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Frances Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 12:33 PM
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1. I am 100% against Medicare fraud
but I don't think it was doctors who were defrauding the government in the last scandal.

I depend on Medicare myself, and no doctor in my county was accepting new Medicare patients BEFORE the cut. I have to travel to another county to see a doctor. (My county is considered low-cost, which is a laugh because old, small, poorly kept up condos cost over $400,000. Because Medicare claims the cost of living is low here, Medicare pays less to doctors here than in the adjoining county, which is the heart of Silicon Valley. Even Medicare won't say that Silicon Valley is low cost.)
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 12:35 PM
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3. They steal from it all the time, that was why I said a reduction. You are never going to get
doctors to not steal.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 12:34 PM
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2. How about not rewarding the doctors for stealing
It always astonishes me that there are two service price lists used for cash customers versus insured customers. Why keep double books when you can just keep double menus.

R U MSSW by any chance?

Worst of all is filing for reasonable and customary.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 12:35 PM
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4. Am I what?
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 12:50 PM
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5. an MSSW
social worker

I guess you answered. :hi:

Just curious - I know quite a few of the games in play, and even why some "good" doctors justify doing it.

It needs to be overhauled - but that would mean spending money on making it work right, and that means not hiring the cheapest MBA to come in and design a flawed program that has little or nothing to do with reality.
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