Re: pelvic exam alternatives-please reply!
From: Anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 19 May 2003 14:09:06 -0500 (CDT)
At Mon, 19 May 2003, Anon wrote:
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Insurance will pay if its medically necessary, but it won't pay for it
to replace a pelvic exam. If she has insurance the public and
not-for-profit hospitals aren't going to cover it either. They are not
going to cover an expensive test instead of a pelvic.
>At Mon, 19 May 2003, Anonymous wrote:
>>Yes, I agree with both of you. I wondered why she posted as well. Maybe trolling. You are right, a lot of insurances aren't going to cover these issues but many public, not-for-profit hospitals will care for her to a degree and without some type of insurance that will be a write-off. Eventually it will come out of the taxpayers pockets if nothing else in higher premiums for us.
>
>The really sad part will be the regret later on that she didn't pursue
>health maintenance care early. Although I hope, for her sake, she beats
>the statistics.
>>>>
>>>From her reply she had her mind made up before she posted and nothing
>>that is said will change her mind. I'm not quite sure why she posted in
>>the first place. If she feels that strongly I hope she never gets
>>pregnant.
>>
>>>>No health insurance plan in the world, including Medicaid, is going to cover ultrasounds,MRI, etc. (which is how she plans to be examined)to diagnose fibroids and cysts without a pelvic exam first. If she can afford all these self examining kits bought over the internet, then she has no business being on Medicaid anyway. By the time she discovers her "plan" isn't working it's too late to survive a gynecological cancer anyway, so don't waste money on health insurance premiums. And if she has to ask what diseases will go undetected with her methodology, then her "month of research" wasn't very exhaustive.
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