Posted on 04/14/2014 5:08:17 PM PDT by Lorianne
Obamacare patients who go to their doctors for a free annual checkup are finding out that they may have to pay for the preventive healthcare visit after all.
They are angry to learn that if they mention past or ongoing health concerns during the physical, that can result in co-pays and deductibles, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Under the Affordable Care Act, preventive care includes screenings for high blood pressure and high cholesterol counts, evaluations for several cancers and diabetes, and vaccinations. The patient is allowed, in most cases, one checkup per year.
But "wellness" care on potential new health issues is viewed as "evaluation and monitoring," and leads to patients having to fork out for the "free" annual physical.
"Patients are scheduling physicals because physicals are free," Randy Wexler, a family physician in Columbus, Ohio, told the Journal. "But they come in and say, 'I've been having headaches. My back has been bothering me, and I'm depressed.' That's not part of a physical. That will trigger a copay."
Wexler says they are not happy about the charges. "They'll say, 'I have diabetes and hypertension and heart disease and seeing you is preventing them from getting worse, so that should be fully covered,'" he said. "But under that theory, everything would be free with no copay."
Doctors told the Journal that seniors have started canceling their annual wellness visits under their Medicare plans when they learn that if they mention a current health issue during the checkup they will likely be charged a co-pay.
Some doctors are even warning patients in advance of the problem and ask them to schedule two visits, one for the "annual" and another for their current health issue, according to the Journal.
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Yes, the “interstate commerce” clause has now been interpreted to mean that NOT choosing to participate in commerce is in fact participating in commerce. Congress now has the power to do literally anything it wants to your paycheck.
Obama will make it free tomorrow
Nothing in Life is Free.
It may be “included”, but it’s never Free.
The Supreme Court said that Congress can *TAX US* for *NOT* doing something.
Thus:
They can make us buy a Prius or pay a million dollar fine.
They can make us buy solar panels or pay a million dollar fine.
They can make us buy a bottle of wine from Nancy Pelosi’s private stock or pay a million dollar fine.
EVERY election is now super important, because literally ANYTHING they say now goes.
Bump
My husband had to go to the emergency room the first week of January because after kidney stone surgery ehe was having a very bad headache and his bllod pressure was over 220 over 100. All they did was run an EKG, test his urine (we don’t know why because he didn’t get the results until a few days later), and then they gave him some pills. It was over $1000 dollars and he was only there for like 2 hours.
He was smart and aked them if they really needed to take his blood because he had already had a blood test for the kidney stone. They still charged him, but we got that off his bill.
They don’t charge for polyp removals. My husband and I have both had colonoscopies with polyps removed in the past month.
So, in other words, the “free” annual obamacare checkup is “free” ONLY if you don’t really need it!
That’s perfect, just perfect!
Stop your complaining, your birth control is free!!
I wants mah free Obamaprobe!
“They’re only angry because they have to pay.They were perfectly fine with someone else having to pay for their check-up.”
Exactly!
The annual check up paid was one of the first things to go.
“If Zero s mouth is moving, he’s lying” simple as that.
then the biller screwed up, polyp removal is NOT included in a screening colonoscopy... count your blessings
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