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RobinA

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3. Strange

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed May 28, 2025, 02:21 PM

May 28

Firstly, upcoding by all health insurance is as old as health insurance, some would argue it's what got us here in the first place. Second, when my 100 year old grandmother was in assisted living (straight Medicare plus Medigap) we had to put her in hospice to STOP them from dragging her to the hospital (she wasn't sick at all, she was old) every time she coughed. And she already had a DNR. The suggestion was that the only way to stop the hospital transport was the hospice option. She was on hospice for 5 years.

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