Hospitals / Doctors now refusing to take Medicare

[Ron61]

Joe,

My doctor stopped taking any new Medicare patients about 3 years ago. He will still see the ones he had before then but they are dying or moving to other states so he doesn't have many left and he said he was really going to be happy to be out of that mess. He used to have one woman that had to come in once every two weeks for some kind of a shot that back then cost about $9. Medicare would only pay $1.07 on it. So Niki, his wife called them and they told her there was a more expensive version of that show which cost around $20 and for her to turn that in and they would pay $17 on it. Now this is straight from the head of the Medicare department for Northern Calif. And they cry about fraud.

Ron