Comments on: Medicare denies too http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/medicare-denies-too.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/medicare-denies-too.html#comment-83176 Anonymous Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/medicare-denies-too.html#comment-83176 Medicare stopped paying in the Northwest in 1997. Delays in payment exceeding 90 days. Internal medicine groups had trouble making payroll. The states affected did things like create no-interest loans to help the docs get through it. They finally sort of fixed it by the end of the year.<br/><br/>Then, contrary to their own rules, Medicare tried to get a repayment from me, over a payment they chose to dispute five years later. It was left over from that 1997 debacle, and in late 2003 (more than five years after the payment), they had some dispute about the charge. Medicare stopped paying in the Northwest in 1997. Delays in payment exceeding 90 days. Internal medicine groups had trouble making payroll. The states affected did things like create no-interest loans to help the docs get through it. They finally sort of fixed it by the end of the year.

Then, contrary to their own rules, Medicare tried to get a repayment from me, over a payment they chose to dispute five years later. It was left over from that 1997 debacle, and in late 2003 (more than five years after the payment), they had some dispute about the charge.

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