So today I was trying to take my sister to the doctor, and a mountain of bullshit came at us all at once.
She's mentally challenged and on disability social security as well as Medicaid. She recently was allowed to get Medicare. My mother recently moved to a new city and so we couldn't actually go to the doctor today.
The reason? Medicaid assigns you a doctor and if you don't have one assigned you can't just see the doctor with Medicaid subscription. You have to first declare them as your doctor. So why can't we use Medicare? Well because even though she got Medicare in March. It doesn't actually start until May 1st. And to declare her a Medicaid doctor it wouldn't start until June.
Now, she can use the ER with Medicaid right now if she needed to but it wasn't an emergency so now she just has to wait until May 1st to actually be seen.
What is this dumb shit?
Edit: this is in Alabama by the way. Other states might be better...
She's mentally challenged and on disability social security as well as Medicaid. She recently was allowed to get Medicare. My mother recently moved to a new city and so we couldn't actually go to the doctor today.
The reason? Medicaid assigns you a doctor and if you don't have one assigned you can't just see the doctor with Medicaid subscription. You have to first declare them as your doctor. So why can't we use Medicare? Well because even though she got Medicare in March. It doesn't actually start until May 1st. And to declare her a Medicaid doctor it wouldn't start until June.
Now, she can use the ER with Medicaid right now if she needed to but it wasn't an emergency so now she just has to wait until May 1st to actually be seen.
What is this dumb shit?
Edit: this is in Alabama by the way. Other states might be better...
