Blog : Medicare coverage

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8/20/2012 7:26 am

Medicare coverage

Not like me to post this kind of thing, but couldn't resist.

MEDICARE COVERAGE IN A NUTSHELL

The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, 'Hello.'
'Mrs.. Sanders, please.'

'Speaking.'

'Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes
Laboratory. When your doctor sent your husband's
biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from another
Mr. Sanders arrived as well and we are now
uncertain which one is your husband's. Frankly the
results are either bad or terrible.'

'What do you mean?' Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.

'Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and
the other one tested positive for AIDS. We can't
tell which is your husband's.'

'That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?' questioned Mrs.
Sanders.

'Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.'

'Well, what am I supposed to do now?'

'The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere
in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him.'

bijou624

8/21/2012 12:47 am

Hi MJ: That joke is soooo funny but kind of scary too.

GavinLS 69M

8/21/2012 1:14 am

LOLOL!

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Abelle2 83F

31228 posts
8/21/2012 7:14 am

Sunshine217 79F

8/21/2012 8:39 am

It's a measure of cost controls to curb doctors from requesting repeated unneeded tests. For example mammograms are allowed once a year, but if a mammogram showed something suspicious, Medicare pays for retesting. If your primary care physician discovers a suspicious lump within that year and reccommends retesting, it is allowed with the verified diagnosictic need for retesting.

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