Chigaco Kids with Public Insurance Denied Doctor Appointments

[Crabcake Johnny]

I do love that at least in my area I get to vote with my wallet. We hit RightTime and we're lucky enough to be 5 minutes from one.

After seeing places like this in action, I see very little need to even have doctor offices. But that's a catch-22 because if these places catch on, then they'll be packed to the gills and waiting times will be insane.

I remember about two years back my wife had a sinus infection. Off to the CVS Minute Clinic. Talk about fast. I believe it was around 15 minutes.

 

[STIBROKER]

After seeing places like this in action, I see very little need to even have doctor offices

tried to get a doc in the box to fix this ....but no one that was experienced enough to do it.......

 

[Norwayguy]

tried to get a doc in the box to fix this ....but no one that was experienced enough to do it.......

Looks like you went to a hospital in the end...Was your Doc under qualified as well?

 

[STIBROKER]

Looks like you went to a hospital in the end...Was your Doc under qualified as well?

this happened at 9:30 pm.....so yes we had to go ER it after the Doc in the box....and even in the ER the attending physician ..tried 3 times to pop it back and could not and had to call in a ortho......now if this was during the day could have just gone straight to the ortho office.........

 

[Crabcake Johnny]

ER always will have a place. I had a kidney stone last year and didn't even attempt doc-n-a-box. Right to the ER.

 

[Norwayguy]

this happened at 9:30 pm.....so yes we had to go ER it after the Doc in the box....and even in the ER the attending physician ..tried 3 times to pop it back and could not and had to call in a ortho......now if this was during the day could have just gone straight to the ortho office.........

I understand....But I think John was talking about a General Practicioner. The Doc in a Box does fit the mold for the Drs office and the price in Lewiston was $90 and I know the cash cost for my Docs office is $93 so pretty similiar. Now I've kept my local Doc because if I can work them in its much more convenient 5 minutes away compared to 30 minutes.

 

[STIBROKER]

I understand....But I think John was talking about a General Practicioner. .

and also can get into ours that day or the next,,,,,what doc in the box need to do is put emergency rooms out of business because all emergency rooms in most case's are out of network....which is a killer........of course the ER should still get the heart attacks and gunshot wounds to the chest......but all limb wounds could still hit up the DIAB......

 

[bobson]

tried to get a doc in the box to fix this ....but no one that was experienced enough to do it.......

Don't you just rub some dirt on it?

 

[AllenChicago]

Dr. Karin Rhodes, an author of the study and director of emergency care policy research at the University of Pennsylvania, said when asked what kind of insurance they had, many simply were turned away.

"We found that two-thirds of children with Medicaid-CHIP were unable to get an appointment at all," Rhodes said.
Rhodes said the lower reimbursement rates and red tape that come with this coverage mean many clinics simply refuse to see kids with public insurance.

Academic medical centers and affiliated Children's Hospitals often have missions that stress serving low-income patients, and they receive federal funds tied to that care. In a new analysis, Rhodes found patients were about half as likely to face discriminatory denials at these hospitals. However, wait times for kids on CHIP or Medicaid were 40 days longer than those with private insurance.

Kids with public insurance denied appointments, had longer waits â€" NewsWorks

Illinois's public insurance program for children and medium income adults, known as KidCare and Family Care, are 9 months behind in paying physicians for services rendered. I have 2 clients who canceled their family health insurance and signed up for Kidcare/Family Care. Their physicians continued to see them without making them wait longer than usual for the appointment, but I bet they weren't treated with the same level of empathy and care.

As the article states, fewer Illinois physicians are accepting new KidCare patients and far more have placed restrictions on the number of Kidcare patients they will see each month. Meager government reimbursement levels that take many months to arrive is utterly rediculous.
-AC

 

[stuy119]

They're 9 months behind now? Just 2 years ago they were 6 months behind, and since then IL has almost doubled the state income tax.

No wonder Sears, Caterpillar, and the CME group wanted to leave unless they were granted exemptions on taxes.