This is a great report, and as one who dims fighting against the big insurance carriers this should motivate more American Seniors who are on Medicare (dis) Advantage.,write to your stat’s insurance commission, and other local and State politicians to get them upset enough to start bringing the issue of these ghost in-network lists up as a serious impediment to quality of care and the promise of a dignified retirement and life in our civil society. Thr greed and avarice of the big insurers who are motivate only by profit need to be excluded from offering insurance policies to Americans. Congress has to stop pandering to corporate interests and protect and defend the rights of their human constituents, NOT corporate people in return for campaign donations. The system is SICK and needs prompt action from our duly elected officials at all levels of Government. Apathy exists because the American people have been lied to by the Insurance Lobby and its propaganda campaigns.
Center for Medicare Services (taxpayers) are now paying private for profit health insurance companies at least $12,000 maybe up to $16,000 annually for each person buying part c plans. Disadvantage plans are corporate welfare.
I was switched from Medicaid to Medicare on August 1. I had to stop a 16 week intensive outpatient program after 1 1/2 weeks because of this. I can’t find a new one. I’m on disability because of a mental illness—bipolar disorder—and not having the support I need is not the only thing exasperating my symptoms; trying to find care is doing a number on me, too. And it’s not even that I have an advantage plan. No one—NO ONE—takes any form of Medicare in my state, except for addiction treatment programs. And I can’t find a psychiatrist, either. My last psychiatrist kept me on until I could find another one who took my insurance, and I made an appointment 3 1/2 months out. But something came up, and he had to close his practice. Now I have no one to prescribe my medication. My primary care provider won’t do it. I finally found someone who would see me, but he doesn’t take my insurance. That’s $400 a session before my appointment with someone who does, and I’ve been denied as a patient many times in the past because of the complexity of my case, and there’s no telling if that will happen again this time. I’ve put three requests in to the insurance company for a care coordinator with no success. I’m disheartened, nearing hopeless, and angry.
This is an important issue, and it's not just mental health care. Ghost networks include (or don't include) all kinds of practices.
This is a great report, and as one who dims fighting against the big insurance carriers this should motivate more American Seniors who are on Medicare (dis) Advantage.,write to your stat’s insurance commission, and other local and State politicians to get them upset enough to start bringing the issue of these ghost in-network lists up as a serious impediment to quality of care and the promise of a dignified retirement and life in our civil society. Thr greed and avarice of the big insurers who are motivate only by profit need to be excluded from offering insurance policies to Americans. Congress has to stop pandering to corporate interests and protect and defend the rights of their human constituents, NOT corporate people in return for campaign donations. The system is SICK and needs prompt action from our duly elected officials at all levels of Government. Apathy exists because the American people have been lied to by the Insurance Lobby and its propaganda campaigns.
Center for Medicare Services (taxpayers) are now paying private for profit health insurance companies at least $12,000 maybe up to $16,000 annually for each person buying part c plans. Disadvantage plans are corporate welfare.
I agree it is corporate welfare at US taxpayers’ and patient’s expense being denied healthcare.
I was switched from Medicaid to Medicare on August 1. I had to stop a 16 week intensive outpatient program after 1 1/2 weeks because of this. I can’t find a new one. I’m on disability because of a mental illness—bipolar disorder—and not having the support I need is not the only thing exasperating my symptoms; trying to find care is doing a number on me, too. And it’s not even that I have an advantage plan. No one—NO ONE—takes any form of Medicare in my state, except for addiction treatment programs. And I can’t find a psychiatrist, either. My last psychiatrist kept me on until I could find another one who took my insurance, and I made an appointment 3 1/2 months out. But something came up, and he had to close his practice. Now I have no one to prescribe my medication. My primary care provider won’t do it. I finally found someone who would see me, but he doesn’t take my insurance. That’s $400 a session before my appointment with someone who does, and I’ve been denied as a patient many times in the past because of the complexity of my case, and there’s no telling if that will happen again this time. I’ve put three requests in to the insurance company for a care coordinator with no success. I’m disheartened, nearing hopeless, and angry.