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XVP - guarding your social security#

#1

Actually, unless you are traveling, there is no good reason to carry
your private insurance or Medicare card with you. Your regular
health care providers already have copies, in their files. If you
go to a new provider or hospital, you only need to bring the card at
your first visit. Even in an emergency, a hospital will take your
information verbally, until someone can bring them your documents.

What If you are in a serious accident and can not talk at all?

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#2

<<Actually, unless you are traveling, there is no good reason to carry
your private insurance or Medicare card with you. Your regular
health care providers already have copies, in their files. If you
go to a new provider or hospital, you only need to bring the card at
your first visit. Even in an emergency, a hospital will take your
information verbally, until someone can bring them your documents.>>

I already have trouble with medical facilities billing us incorrectly even when they see the insurance cards immediately. (We both have Medicare and private insurance.) Without the cards immediately available to them, I shutter at the paperwork that would follow while I try to straighten things out.

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#3

I can't imagine why a medical provider, whom you've seen previously,
would even want to see your medical cards. The most that they should
require is verbal assurance that nothing changed since your last
visit. If they are billing Medicare & your Medicare supplement carrier
incorrectly, so that "you need to straighten things out", you should
have a talk with their billing department. This has NOTHING to do
with seeing your card (after the first time).
Babe

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Babe wrote:

Actually, unless you are traveling, there is no good reason to carry
your private insurance or Medicare card with you. Your regular health
care providers already have copies, in their files. If you go to a
new provider or hospital, you only need to bring the card at your
first visit. Even in an emergency, a hospital will take your
information verbally, until someone can bring them your documents.

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In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Jean Scott" <QueenofComps@f...> wrote:

I already have trouble with medical facilities billing us incorrectly
even when they see the insurance cards immediately. (We both have
Medicare and private insurance.) Without the cards immediately
available to them, I shutter at the paperwork that would follow while
I try to straighten things .

#4

<<I can't imagine why a medical provider, whom you've seen previously,
would even want to see your medical cards.>>

Not sure how old you are, but at our ages (66 and 73) we see all kinds of new doctors and don't always go to the same hospital. Of course, we have had a lot of medical "episodes" in the last 2 1/2 years. Breaking my foot 3 weeks ago was just the last of these. I hope this medical string will end - since we have also been going through a tough losing streak in gambling too this year.

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________________________________________
Jean $�ott - http://www.FrugalGambler.biz
  for VP software and strategy cards.
  NEW - Blackjack Strategy Cards +
              Updated Second Edition of
             "The Frugal Gambler."

#5

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "jackessiebabe" <jackessiebabe@y...>
wrote:

I can't imagine why a medical provider, whom you've seen previously,
would even want to see your medical cards. The most that they

should

require is verbal assurance that nothing changed since your last
visit.

I think that many medical provider office help find it easier to check
for themselves rather than "trust" the person's memory. I am sure
that they have gotten burned more than once by faulty memory and
decided it was easier to "do it myself"

DWK

#6

I'm in the same age bracket as you and Brad, but thankfully, I've
been more fortunate, healthwise then you have been recently. I
sympathize with your problems, and hope that they are now behind you.
Though health issues are vastly more important than losing at VP, I
also hope that your bad VP streak is soon over, and that there many
royals in your future.

To get back to carrying insurance cards, as I said previously, if
you are seeing a medical provider that you've SEEN PREVIOUSLY, there
is no reason to have to provide your insurance card to his/her
office again. If you are seeing a new medical provider, for the 1st
time, you must show your card(s) which are then copied and kept in
your file. You can then put your card away in a safe place, until
it's needed again. There is no need to carry it with you at all
times. Of course, if you change insurance carriers, you must
provide the new documentation to your provider.

It's indeed unfortunate that we live in times where it is so very
necessary to protect our private information from people whose aim
is to prosper at our expense. We must cope with this as best we can
by being aware, alert and not sharing our private information with
anyone who does not have the right to see it.

Babe

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-- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Jean Scott" <QueenofComps@f...> wrote:

Not sure how old you are, but at our ages (66 and 73) we see all
kinds of new doctors and don't always go to the same hospital. Of
course, we have had a lot of medical "episodes" in the last 2 1/2
years. Breaking my foot 3 weeks ago was just the last of these. I
hope this medical string will end - since we have also been going
through a tough losing streak in gambling too this year.

#7

This will be my last post on this subject(which has gotten WAY
off topic).

I believe that everyone should carry with them, at all times, an
emergency contact's name, address & phone #. That contact should
not only have access to your important private information, but also
to a copy of your living will (which advises the hospital/physicians,
as to what course of action YOU want them take, should you be
impaired to the extent that you can verbalize your wishes).

In that way, even if you are brought to the hospital in a comatose
state, the hospital can get immediate access to your information.

If one does not have a friend or family member who is willing to take
on this responsibility, one should employ the services of a paid
professional to serve in this capacity, should the need arise.
Peace of mind is worth whatever charge might be made for this service.

Babe

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Babe wrote:
.............. Even in an emergency, a hospital will take your
information verbally, until someone can bring them your documents.....
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, BANDSTAND54@A... wrote:

What If you are in a serious accident and can not talk at all?