A single offhand comment to the intake nurse can quietly reclassify a zero-cost Medicare screening into a procedure that comes with a deductible and a 20% bill, and most patients never see it coming ...
Mentioning symptoms like stomach pain before a free screening colonoscopy can trigger Medicare to reclassify it as diagnostic, adding a $283 deductible plus 20% coinsurance. What the physician ...
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He mentioned stomach pain before his colonoscopy. The free screening could turn into a 20% bill.
A 66-year-old arrives for a screening colonoscopy he expects to cost nothing. During the pre-procedure questions, he mentions something new: his stomach has been bothering him for several weeks. That ...
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