Re: Spam Alert: Re: [QUAD-L] FOUND IT! - Medicare & Home Health Care

[David K. Kelmer]

Hi Tom,

 

All I have is Basic Medicare.  It would be nice if we could get some HMOs go come to this part of the State.  I've heard others with a HMO have good things to say about them. 

 

With Love,

CtrlAltDel aka Dave
C4/5 Complete - 29 Years Post
Texas, USA 

tahouston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

When daughter was living with me, my Medicare/HMO gave me 49 hours of PCA care, one visit a week from a nursing agency to check my wounds, and two home visits a year if I chose not to make a personal office visit from a doctor.

 

Now that my 18-year-old daughter no longer lives with me, they have decreased my hours to 42 hours for PCA care.

 

I live alone in a three-bedroom ranch in a West suburban area of Chicago.  They told me that if I get another roommate or rent out a room, they will return my 49 hours.  Go figure.
Tom Houston
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From: S. Dial

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Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 4:30 PM

Subject: Spam Alert: Re: [QUAD-L] FOUND IT! - Medicare & Home Health Care

35hrs a week -- what a pipe dream! I don't know of a single qualifying person who receives this amount of HHA care paid for through Medicare - does anyone? Medicare reps told me it only paid for 3 visits a week - period - regardless of condition that's a whopping three hours (whoohoo). I didn't know about all this "agencies get to keep the money" policy NO REPS volunteered that tid-bit what little I've learned has been through what I could glean from their handbook and other fellow sufferers, err, clients.  

 

Steph