WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for August, 1998: Re: Medicare patients NOT ALLOWED at certain hospitals...even if THEY CAN SELF-PAY?

Re: Medicare patients NOT ALLOWED at certain hospitals...even if THEY CAN SELF-PAY?

From: Barbara (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 21:10:03 -0500 (CDT)

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Dear Helen,

This IS TRUE!!!!

Last March, I beleive, this was passed as a add-on to some other large bill passed by both Houses of Congress. It's sad but true.

Now physicians cannot see private patients that want to pay out of pocket for additional testing Not appproved by Medicare. If they do this they can be fined or (I think) also loose their licence to paractice medicaine.

I guees the best thng to do is write your Senator or Congressman and tell them what you have told us.

Barb

At Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Helen wrote: >
>The other day I called a very famous hospital. As part of the interview
>I was asked my age. When I told her that I was 67, she said that the
>hospital DID NOT ACCEPT Medicare Insurance! I then told her that I was
>able to self-pay. Her response was that the federal government has a
>law that states that when a hospital WILL NOT ACCEPT Medicare Insurance,
>the hospital and surgeon CANNOT ACCEPT Medicare patients...EVEN IF THEY
>CAN PAY for their own medical care.!!!!! Is this true? If so, is there
>anyway to overturn this discriminatory way of handling Medicare
>patients?

--
Barbara Nesbitt
Editor, OBGYN.net

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