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My father in law had Medicare advantage. They denied his claims for skilled nursing that was getting him back on his feet. The facility just downgraded him from
by more_corn 4y ago
My father in law had Medicare advantage. They denied his claims for skilled nursing that was getting him back on his feet. The facility just downgraded him from skilled nursing and left him in an hallway. He had a cardiac arrest due to low electrolytes ended up back in the ER and never recovered. (Pop quiz, how does someone on an IV end up with low electrolytes? Only way I can think is if they don’t fill the bag)
Why did they deny him? No reason. It’s just standard procedure. They deny, get good justification and approve. They do that every 7 days. They prettied up the language but confirmed that this is exactly what they do.
They literally killed him as part of standard operating procedure.
This country is fucked. Y’all better hope you have enough money to go be old somewhere else.
- giardini 4y agoYep, this sounds like "the whole story...", doesn't it? Nothing missing here: - FIL has MA, - FIL (somehow, no explanation given) is in a "facility" (hospital, ER, doctor's office, bus depot, ???), - FIL is "downgraded" and "had a cardiac arrest... and never recovered...) ... - "They literally killed him as part of standard operating procedure." Sounds like quite a few grounds for a lawsuit but I'm neither a lawyer nor a doctor. Neither am I a fool: this is waaay to iffy a story/description to be useful in judging most anything mentioned in the story, be it MA, the "facility", the FIL, the writer, or the diagnosis. As for who's fucked, the writer should worry about himself first.