Angry at my doctor and DME supplier - they tried to spy on me

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chartle
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Re: Angry at my doctor and DME supplier - they tried to spy on me

Post by chartle » Thu Mar 15, 2018 1:15 pm

This is exactly what was told to me by my DME and I'm pretty sure I signed something saying i understood the requirements. The only thing different is how the machine is paid for.
The standard medicare (and most insurance) policy is to have you rent the CPAP machine for the first several months (13 for medicare, 10 for many private insurance carriers) and you do not own the machine during that time.


If I understood correctly, my Insurer rents the machine for the 3 month "trial" period. Over the next 9 months they pay for it and then at the end I own it. I'm 100% covered so I don't see anything on the money end.

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Re: Angry at my doctor and DME supplier - they tried to spy on me

Post by bwexler » Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:35 pm

You guys rarely see that stuff but I do. They don't anymore use the equipment than my dog does. They just play the game.

Which CPAP machine does your dog use, Pugsy?

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Re: Angry at my doctor and DME supplier - they tried to spy on me

Post by prodigyplace » Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:51 pm

bwexler wrote:
Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:35 pm
You guys rarely see that stuff but I do. They don't anymore use the equipment than my dog does. They just play the game.

Which CPAP machine does your dog use, Pugsy?
The wraparound full face mask would be interesting. That breed has a BIG mouth for its size.

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Re: Angry at my doctor and DME supplier - they tried to spy on me

Post by loggerhead12 » Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:23 pm

chunkyfrog wrote:
Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:37 pm
Joined the forum right after 1 am cdt, posted a few minutes after.
Lots of people on this furum are cranky at 1am, present company included.

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Re: Angry at my doctor and DME supplier - they tried to spy on me

Post by Bertha deBlues » Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:33 pm

ImRealPleezApproveMe wrote:
Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:23 pm
chunkyfrog wrote:
Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:37 pm
Joined the forum right after 1 am cdt, posted a few minutes after.
Lots of people on this furum are cranky at 1am, present company included.
Some of us are cranky all the time. :P
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Re: Angry at my doctor and DME supplier - they tried to spy on me

Post by Goofproof » Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:22 pm

Bertha deBlues wrote:
Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:33 pm
ImRealPleezApproveMe wrote:
Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:23 pm
chunkyfrog wrote:
Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:37 pm
Joined the forum right after 1 am cdt, posted a few minutes after.
Lots of people on this furum are cranky at 1am, present company included.
Some of us are cranky all the time. :P
And every passing day, people make it easier for us to become more so! :roll: Jim
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Re: Angry at my doctor and DME supplier - they tried to spy on me

Post by chunkyfrog » Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:57 pm

Oddly, the poster's activity (only ONE post, in toto) seems to be limited
to that time favored by the spambots.
Note: at that wee hour, I am usually asleep.

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Re: Angry at my doctor and DME supplier - they tried to spy on me

Post by Jerseyguy » Fri Mar 16, 2018 12:07 am

Mikebear wrote:
ImRealPleezApproveMe wrote:
Wed Mar 14, 2018 7:49 am
My doctor knocked me out and took a video of my colon. Bastard.
I'd let him do that every night, if I could get sleep like that Propofol they use gives a person, LOL
That propofol is great best sleep I have ever had when I went in for an endoscopy. I used to be a pharmacy technician at a hospital and delivered it to ICU and the OR. We used to call it milk of amnesia, it can cause people to forget stuff right from even a little while a couple of hours before they went in for the procedure and the large ones look like milk bottles.

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