Postby NHMike » Sat Jun 02, 2018 7:21 am
In the US, there are four levels of coverage for Medicare and my mother dropped three of them as she didn't want to pay the premiums. The premiums are fairly low. So she wound up with large costs at retail rates because she didn't have coverage. So I was asked to pick up the costs. This was some time after the services had been rendered.
There is great variance in coverage between Medicare, Medicaid, the Exchanges and Private insurance. I have received vouchers for taxi rides from the hospital in the past but I usually just took care of transportation myself. I'm most familiar with private insurance. With private insurance, you typically fill out a survey at the end of the year to rate the insurance. If there were a lot of demand from employees for a particular service, then it wold likely get added to coverage or there would be an additional coverage benefit. One of our cafeteria plans offers health coverage for pets now. We have a plan for student college costs, legal insurance, dental coverage, vision coverage, etc. If there were employee demand for medical transportation services, then it would be added to health insurance or it would be added as a separate benefit. That's how things work at my company.
6/17: ER rectal bleeding; Colonoscopy
7/17: 3B rectal. T3N1bM0. 5.2 4.5 4.3 cm. Lymphs: 6 x 4 mm, 8 x 6, 5 x 5
7/17-9/17: Xeloda radiation
7/5: CEA 2.7; 8/16: 1.9; 11/30: 0.6; 12/20 1.4; 1/10 1.8; 1/31 2.2; 2/28 2.6; 4/10 2.8; 5/1 2.8; 5/29 3.2; 7/13 4.5; 8/9 2.8, 2/12 1.2
MSS, KRAS G12D
10/17: 2.7 2.2 1.6 cm (-90%). Lymphs: 3 x 3 mm (-62.5%), 4 x 3 (-75%), 5 x 3 (-40%). 5.1 CM from AV
10/17: LAR, Temp Ileostomy, Path Complete Response
CapeOx (8) 12/17-6/18
7/18: Reversal, Port Removal
2/19: Clean CT