Insurance Coverage

We are no longer accepting new patients with “Medicare Advantage Plans”.  We had no choice but to make this move.  If you have a “Medicare Advantage Plan”, we strongly advise you to drop it for a standard Medicare/Secondary coverage plan.  “Medicare Advantage Plans” are strongly DISCOURAGED by our office, and soon we may have to drop all of them.

The stark reality is this: Medicare Advantage Plans of all types are bad.  They are, from our office experience and opinion, unethical by denying claims and services provided to their patients by doctors’ offices like ours.  News agencies have reported on their unethical practices which are devastating to clinics and hospitals throughout America.   For many of our patients, these plans are the only plans that your family can afford and thus we are trying to work with these companies so that we can keep all of our patients.  Do your best to keep your standard Medicare coverage with a secondary plan of your choosing.  When you go with a Medicare Advantage Plan – you transfer your coverage from Medicare to a for-profit business model plan (like Humana, Aetna, UnitedHeathCare, Cigna, BlueCross) – that far too often makes decisions that are NOT in the best interests of patients or doctor’s offices…but cut costs for their corporate interests.  If you can, stay away from “Advantage” plans….the only advantage they offer is to their respective CEOs.