More praise for traditional Medicare

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@VeeEnn

Just a word of warning…keep an eye on your patient portal to make sure that it really was a clerical error responsible for the initial denial in the first place rather than the addition of a disease you don’t actually have that would then justify the use of/reimbursement for the tests performed.

Yes. Last year I wrote about a Private Equity scheme my Nephrologist signed up for that added 4 diseases I didn’t have to my medical record.

Should you sign up for Connected Care at your doctor's office?

I got a text from my doctor’s office last week asking that I sign up for their new Connected Care App. So I signed up for it, and the people with “Connected Care” start peppering me with texts asking if I need anything? I tell them “No, everything seems to be in remission and the set of labs I had done earlier in the week are all within normal limits.” So they say "Great, can we send you a copy of your “Care Plan”? I download the “Care Plan” and it has 4 or 5 diseases on it that I don’t have. …

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