He went to the hospital of his choice, he did not have to wait for an appointment and Medicare will pay the insurance company of his choice.
As more and more hospitals and doctors drop their participation in medicare, Your choice is going to become irrelevant, You will be forced to go to the only ones left that still accept it.
More doctors stop accepting everytime there is another round of medicare reimbursement cuts.
So stay tuned there is another one coming up.
I work in health care and we were notified last week that due to the upcoming medicare reimbursement cuts all administration salaries are frozen and staff salaries will be limited to 2% so look for more docs and hospitals to drop medicare.