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Non-payment By Medicare

posted by Bernard Sam Myers on 28 Oct 2009 at 10:33 am

I am 81 years old, sound mind and good health. Medicare refuses to pay for placement of stent in my basilar artery, 90% blocked, as they say it was "not medically necessary". I had brain radiation earlier for Melanoma and I believe this caused me to stagger walk.

I no longer stagger walk following the stent placement. Now I have to fight the idiots at WSP in Wisconsin and try for a re-consideration. My alternative was to NOT have the stent placement and be dead. Medicare people are trying to make up 500 Billion with my help.


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Life Goes On After Stenting Procedure Opens Brain Artery Not Accessible By Surgery - Wingspan Stent Clinical Trial At Cedars-Sinai

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Not A Reliable Source To Practice Medicine
posted by Pawan Jain MD on 01 Nov 2009 at 5:44 pm
this is criteria for commercial practice of medicine. no cookbook. Discipline of medicine is very controversial. Milliman criteria are developed to save money for the profit for insurance industry. i have read lot of articales for evidence based medicaine and some of the finding many physician may not agree, even at international level. i have practiced medicine in europe, africa, asia.

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