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Jesus H. Christ! Yoda, could you be more of an ***?
Rick
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There is not an insurance company out there that wants an agent printing up 2 pages of their own words in an attempt to market their insurance. I can almost guarantee you that Mutual Of Omaha would not approve of an agent sending out a 2 page letter in his own words. You call Mutual Of Omaha monday and talk to the marketing dept and come back here and tell me they said it was alright to send out 2 page self composed letters about medicare to customers your marketing Mutual of Omaha too and I will eat my words here. Otherwise shut up and you just might learn something here son!
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I think the real issue isn't whether a participating doctor accepts assignment. I think the real issue is whether a doctor will continue to participate at all. I know from first hand experience (at least in California and Colorado) that over the last several years more doctors have been dropping out of the Medicare program all together. It hasn't been a mass exodus, but over time it has created a noticeable decline in the available supply of Medicare participating doctors. Any Medicare patient that choses to see a non-participating doctor must pay full retail price up front, and the doctor will not file a claim for the patient.
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Otherwise shut up and you just might learn something here son!
I've been in this industry since 1976. You dare call ME son?
Change your diaper and come back when you can wipe your ass without your mommy helping you.
If you notice, there isn't anyone else on this forum that uses a large font or a bold font. When people don't have anything to say, they tend to shout.
Rick
Sending out 2 page letters like that is a rookie mistake....and shame on you if you didnt know that.
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Sending out 2 page letters like that is a rookie mistake....and shame on you if you didnt know that.
I don't disagree with you but you need to:
1) Stop shouting
2) Use paragraphs
You do these things, and people might stop thinking you're an ***.
It's not so much what you say it's how you say it. Makes you look like a loudmouth rookie.
Rick
I was printing in bold print as a courtesy to make it easier to read. If its that much of a crime to help people out then I will not use bold type any more. Does that make you happy?
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That could be the best thing that could possibly happen. When folks have a little more skin in the game, they are much more attentive to cost consciousness.
Someone may even ask for a...gasp...discount.
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I was printing in bold print as a courtesy to make it easier to read. If its that much of a crime to help people out then I will not use bold type any more. Does that make you happy?
Not happy but maybe will give you more credibility.
Next, try paragraphs and your posts will be easier for all to read and understand.
You're learning sonny.
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Amen. Wouldn't it be great if insurance only covered claims after a deductible.
I asked the office manager of my cardiologist (quack, nothing wrong with me) to give me a price for the visit. She argued that she didn't know. I said he's writing a Rx and it will be a 10 minute meeting in his office, not in an examing room. She asked me why I wanted to know. I said I'm being a good consumer. She pointed out that this was a medical office with a large amount of overhead. I said she had a big ass.
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What is the business model for a doctor to leave Medicare? Have you been to a doctor's office recently? I spent some time cold-walking doctor's offices (for DI) recently and without exception half the waiting room looked to be over age 65. (I obviously didn't go to any OB or peds offices that day.)
I simply don't know how an internist, gastro, uro, procto, ortho, rhumo, onco or gen surg could survive financially without Medicare. And without insurance of some kind the OBs and radios would have a tough time of it.
Why does Kaiser take Medicare? Would they if they didn't have to (i.e. it was a money-loser?) Same with hospitals and clinics.
I'm not saying some docs and other providers won't quit the system, I just don't think it will be very many. Medicare is part and parcel to their total income from what I understand. (My wife was an OR nurse for the first 20 years of our marriage and we still know lots and lots of doc... and to be honest we don't hear many complaints from them about their income levels, but perhaps we're an isolated case... and ALL of the docs we know have been in practice many years now.... indeed we've all grown old together... baby-boomers born in the 40s.)
