http://www.dloye.com/myblog/wordpress/?p=425 Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.dloye.com/myblog/wordpress/?p=425#comment-2070 Jackie Ruckel Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:56:09 +0000 http://www.dloye.com/myblog/wordpress/?p=425#comment-2070 I like your number 3 idea.. I like your number 3 idea..

]]> http://www.dloye.com/myblog/wordpress/?p=425#comment-1910 linda Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:11:18 +0000 http://www.dloye.com/myblog/wordpress/?p=425#comment-1910 Your "clipper" has some good ideas and I agree with much of what is said about possible methods of health care reform. However, doctors out this way often give probono care. They are required by the feds (if they are Medicare docs) to make "three reasonable efforts" to collect the money owed them. Send a bill once a month for three months. If no response, write off the money if you want to. The trick is, the patient has to speak with the doctor about the financial need and will find most docs out here are willing to do everything pro bono. Those docs explain the three times rule and caution the patient not to send any response to the billing. It works. I've seen it work many times. I have used it for family members. I haven't tried for myself as, being the in biz, I'm never hassled about health care bills and usually pay only what insurance pays and am an automatic write off. It pays to have suffered through a profession I hated for all those years. Also, doctors have med samples. Do not fill a new expensive prescription of meds that may or may not work for you. Ask first if the doc has a two week trial. If it works, then invest the money. If you're traveling anywhere, ask if the doc has sample meds for those you take so you can take little cards with a week of medicine instead of the big bottles. As you say, enough.....I could go on forever it seems about how to survive the health care we now have, but in the end, I still want it changed. Your “clipper” has some good ideas and I agree with much of what is said about possible methods of health care reform. However, doctors out this way often give probono care. They are required by the feds (if they are Medicare docs) to make “three reasonable efforts” to collect the money owed them. Send a bill once a month for three months. If no response, write off the money if you want to. The trick is, the patient has to speak with the doctor about the financial need and will find most docs out here are willing to do everything pro bono. Those docs explain the three times rule and caution the patient not to send any response to the billing. It works. I’ve seen it work many times. I have used it for family members. I haven’t tried for myself as, being the in biz, I’m never hassled about health care bills and usually pay only what insurance pays and am an automatic write off. It pays to have suffered through a profession I hated for all those years. Also, doctors have med samples. Do not fill a new expensive prescription of meds that may or may not work for you. Ask first if the doc has a two week trial. If it works, then invest the money. If you’re traveling anywhere, ask if the doc has sample meds for those you take so you can take little cards with a week of medicine instead of the big bottles. As you say, enough…..I could go on forever it seems about how to survive the health care we now have, but in the end, I still want it changed.

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