Re: thursday morn- Heidi
Nope it's not her insurance. She has traditional Medicare parts A and B plus an AARP United Healthcare supplement plan. It's the Medicare patients who sign up for Part C plans with an HMO or PPO who are having insurance coverage issues at hospital. Not those with traditional Medicare who get an additional regular supplement like the AARP one. I've actually been on the phone with the Medicare people to discuss this at one point, and it's not them doing this, it's definitely the hospital's decision. Plus the AARP United Healthcare supplement plans cover a lot and are reliable plans. This hospital is located in a more moneyed area and the administration pushes out the Medicare patients faster in favor of the patients with private insurance plans that pay more money than Medicare does. They're now using this weird "block" payment system to charge Medicare so they're making cutbacks to things for their Medicare patients, like no longer doing in-patient physical therapy and pressuring their doctors to discharge them right away.
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