Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place, otherwise please direct me where to go...
I am a patient who has Medicare and Share Cost Medicaid... My doctor's office will not accept the Medicaid but they want to tell me that my "balance is 0" anyways as they know I have financial hardship... They've not flat out said that this is why, but it is implied. I've read before that this should be documented in a patient's chart... So, they are kind enough to waive this for me (it appears that they do this with a wlot of their patients as I can tell that most of the other patients have similar financial issues), but they won't accept the Medicaid ShareCost... I don't think that they'll be willing to put anything in my chart as this would incriminate what they are doing with the other patients, I imagine... Should I just say to myself, "Great! Nice doctor!" and accept this... Can I be held liable in any way? Also, they have not give me a bill (and I suspet that they won't). If they show me the screen that says "0" balance I'll feel better about this... Also, they are doing acupuncture, so I imagine that this won't end up being accepted by Medicaid anyways...