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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 12:47 PM Original message |
Medicare proposes a 50% cut for some imaging fees in 2012 |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. $2k in Bio-Imaging Scans |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
2. $3500 for a PET scan and another $500 to have it 'read'. |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 01:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. It is the "reading" part that gets my ire up. |
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Booster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
4. There's so many ways to cut in Medicare. Just a small example: |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 02:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. They rented my daughter a air mattress so she would not get bedsores. |
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Booster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. And if they would have just bought you one you could have |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 02:38 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. They once refuse a new arm pad for $22, 99 for her wheelchair we bought in |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
5. Oh, oh, it is small hospital that are going to get hurt on this. Many of them |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 03:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Small hospitals, but also some larger ones. |
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