STAT Investigation: Medicare Advantage, Just Say No
Mar 14, 2023 18:52:35 GMT
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Post by icemandios on Mar 14, 2023 18:52:35 GMT
Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need
The pitch: What you pay for Medicare gets added to your SS benefits.
The fact: True, because you no longer have Medicare.
The pitch: You get eye glasses, dental, rides to the doc, etc.
The fact: True, because these things amount to beads and trinkets (like Minuet bought Manhattan Island from the Indians).
Friends don't let friends choose Medicare Advantage.
The pitch: What you pay for Medicare gets added to your SS benefits.
The fact: True, because you no longer have Medicare.
The pitch: You get eye glasses, dental, rides to the doc, etc.
The fact: True, because these things amount to beads and trinkets (like Minuet bought Manhattan Island from the Indians).
“We take patients who are going to die of their diseases within a three-month period of time, and we force them into a denial and appeals process that lasts up to 2.5 years,” Chris Comfort, chief operating officer of Calvary Hospital, a palliative and hospice facility in the Bronx, N.Y., said of Medicare Advantage. “So what happens is the appeal outlasts the beneficiary.”
Friends don't let friends choose Medicare Advantage.