Tuesday, October 31, 2006
It's YOUR MONEY
Franklin , Tennessee - Jerry Horne wrote this. Sometimes you feel like being silly or sarcastic at our American way of life. Then , there are times you don't. Here's one of those moments.
Health care facilities like Pain Management in Antioch , or places like SPECTRUM in Franklin are nothing more than pill mills. About all they do is dispense addictive drugs because you have a pain and they don't know what to do for it.
These places know how bilking the insurance company works , so it's common for them to bill 3 or even 4 times for the same thing during an office visit. Well , here's the kicker. Medicare is tired of being over billed and making over payments , and so , they are presently auditing these pill mills. Their audits thus far have gone back to 2002.
After nit picking everything , Medicare then makes a demand for reimbursements , which these places can't say no to. Now what ? You ask.
These places know if you are working or not. If you are not , they check to see if your spouse is working. If so , they will make an innocent phone call to you and ask for their social security number. When you ask why and what's going on , they say that all they want is your spouse's birthdate , while trying to get their social security number. They won't come forward and tell you why they want this , or they will say something like Medicare now requires this information for their billing system.
Both remarks are lies. What they are doing is to confirm this information so they can garnash your spouse's paycheck , and you won't know it until it's been done. They will do what ever they can to make up for that lost money that they say YOU are now responsible for.
What it all boils down to is that YOU are responsible for their billing mistakes. That's a lie , butt , that's what they will say in a smooth way in some court room. OK. What do you do ?
You get from them an itemized bill showing all visits and all billing claims. Get every piece of information you can. YOU , yes YOU , are not responsible for their billing system or their mistakes. I'm telling you this to keep you from getting burned. These people don't have a conscious , and they don't care who gets burned ass long ass they make their one o'clock tee off.
Health care facilities like Pain Management in Antioch , or places like SPECTRUM in Franklin are nothing more than pill mills. About all they do is dispense addictive drugs because you have a pain and they don't know what to do for it.
These places know how bilking the insurance company works , so it's common for them to bill 3 or even 4 times for the same thing during an office visit. Well , here's the kicker. Medicare is tired of being over billed and making over payments , and so , they are presently auditing these pill mills. Their audits thus far have gone back to 2002.
After nit picking everything , Medicare then makes a demand for reimbursements , which these places can't say no to. Now what ? You ask.
These places know if you are working or not. If you are not , they check to see if your spouse is working. If so , they will make an innocent phone call to you and ask for their social security number. When you ask why and what's going on , they say that all they want is your spouse's birthdate , while trying to get their social security number. They won't come forward and tell you why they want this , or they will say something like Medicare now requires this information for their billing system.
Both remarks are lies. What they are doing is to confirm this information so they can garnash your spouse's paycheck , and you won't know it until it's been done. They will do what ever they can to make up for that lost money that they say YOU are now responsible for.
What it all boils down to is that YOU are responsible for their billing mistakes. That's a lie , butt , that's what they will say in a smooth way in some court room. OK. What do you do ?
You get from them an itemized bill showing all visits and all billing claims. Get every piece of information you can. YOU , yes YOU , are not responsible for their billing system or their mistakes. I'm telling you this to keep you from getting burned. These people don't have a conscious , and they don't care who gets burned ass long ass they make their one o'clock tee off.
