[Magdalen] HIPAA Redux

[Jay Weigel]

Big Insurance SUCKS. One of my options when I left bedside nursing was to
go to work for one of the private insurance companies. I could not bring
myself to even apply. After all the fights I'd had with them as a case
manager in home health, after all the crap I'd seen them pull on patients,
even the thought of working for them made me sick. I decided I'd rather
just retire.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> my point was that insurance only covers some of these procedures as per
> the CDC recommendations
> if your doc tries to bypass the system, a procedure outside of the
> recommendations flags 'a problem' (IOW you have a problem) which increases
> your insurance.
>
> Lynn, counting the days till Medicare 2 years 5 months...
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> by Richard Rohr
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:56 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] HIPAA Redux
>
>  Per my GYN, who literally saved my life 3 years ago, if you are
>> post-menopausal and HPV negative and do not have a new sexual partner, you
>> may not need yearly pap smears. If you have had a hysterectomy, you
>> absolutely do not. There are new guidelines, but not all docs go by them.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 8:41 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  If you get to a certain age and have never had an abnormal pap
>>> smear, I don't think you need to have them any more. I haven't
>>> had one in a decade. So don't worry, i guess.
>>>
>>> We have public health officials who inform partners, but they
>>> just say: you may have been exposed, so see your physicialn
>>> and let us know if you need a referral.
>>> -M
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 22, 2015, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Conversation with a doc friend who mourned some aspects of HIPAA when
>>> > she
>>> > was physician for both husband and wife pairs.  Often the husband would
>>> be
>>> > diagnosed with a VD and all she could do was tell him to tell all of >
>>> his
>>> > partners... right.
>>> >
>>> > Probably a lot more upsides than downsides to HIPAA, but I do know that
>>> > all the data they're wringing out of us now on doc visits, being typed
>>> > right into our computer records in the exam room  most times, are
>>> becoming
>>> > part of 'the great data mine' for statistics out the wazoo...
>>> >
>>> > I am particularly annoyed that the 'suggestions' from about 5 years ago
>>> in
>>> > re women's health - the pap smear and the mammogram not being >
>>> 'necessary'
>>> > every year any more, have become 'not covered' by insurance' every year
>>> any
>>> > more unless there are presenting reasons (any exceptions will up your
>>> > insurance.... existing conditions or potential existing conditions do
>>> > not
>>> > mean no increase, they just mean no refusal to insure
>>> >
>>>
>>>