a.) Case: Medicare payments to physicians who work in the clinic have been cut,
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a.) Case: Medicare payments to physicians who work in the clinic have been cut, so policy has changed to “no new Medicare patients will be accepted” is ethical? Explain why or why not?
b.) Case: You are accompanying an older relative visiting the clinic for the first time and your Family Relative has been turned away as a patient, what would be your reaction to the clinic’s stated policy?
c.) Case: Imagine that you are the older person visiting the clinic for the first time and You are turned away as a patient, what would your reaction be?
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a.) Case: Medicare payments to physicians who work in the clinic have been cut, so policy has changed to “no new Medicare patients will be accepted” is ethical? Explain why or why not?
Every physician has a right to decide what’s right for his practice, but if every doctor were to disenroll from Medicare, the aging population would face an extremely dire field of options for obtaining medical care.
The frightening prospect of the Medicare cuts makes this an almost conceivable possibility. Some medical advocacy groups estimate that if the 27.4% cuts were to actually go into effect, as many as two-thirds of the nation’s doctors would stop taking new Medicare patients.
Nontraditional approaches to practice management, such as direct pay or “concierge” models of care, are growing in popularity and could bridge the growing gap in the availability of care for the elderly. By enabling patients to pay providers directly for their medical treatment, these models cut out Medicare altogether. Someone having good insurance get his issue fixed with in two weeks after his MRI wheras any elderly person with same problem can saw the same doctor that fixed him he got rid of me in about some minutes.
I cant believe that they would let a human being in this severe pain go this long with out getting it fixed.
b.) Case: You are accompanying an older relative visiting the clinic for the first time and your Family Relative has been turned away as a patient, what would be your reaction to the clinic’s stated policy?
I will be very angry and argue with the doctors. This disgusting policy should be changed.
c.) Case: Imagine that you are the older person visiting the clinic for the first time and You are turned away as a patient, what would your reaction be?
To live healthy is my birth right and all my life I paid taxes to encounter such an issue at ld age ?
I will be very angry and argue with the doctors. This disgusting policy should be changed.
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