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Completely missing context from the story: If a healthcare provider accepts Medicare patients, legally they cannot charge anyone a lower price than they give M
by coredog64 7y ago
Completely missing context from the story: If a healthcare provider accepts Medicare patients, legally they cannot charge anyone a lower price than they give Medicare. The Medicare price is the price floor, not the average price. Once you understand that, the charge rates make more sense. However, I suppose adding that context wouldn’t gin up the correct amount of outrage...
- merpnderp 7y agoI used to see a doctor who had an angry note in his front office stating he would charge less if he could but his group had negotiated a price with Medicare and it was against the law for him to charge less. In lieu, he took donations to pay for the needy and I strongly suspect laundered his own profits into that pot effectively circumventing Medicare’s insane rules. I suspect this because lots of people used the donations but he would never accept any from me.