Re: Responses to Medicaid & C-Leg

Re: Responses to Medicaid & C-Leg

Karen Lynch Co/Beprosthetist

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I think it's unethical for a practitioner to discriminate
against a patient based on the fact that he or she is on
Medicaid. Furthermore, I think that by doing so you would be
putting your own financial interests (no increase in tax money
out of your pocket) above the medical interest of the patient-
which I believe is in direct violation of the Canon of Ethics.
  If some of you out there have an issue with the expense of
the C-leg, then you should have issue with that for ALL third
party payors, not just for those who are unfortunate enough to
be on Medicaid. (Besides, you don't want YOUR health insurance
bill to go up any more than YOUR taxes - or do you just like to
pick on poor people?)
  We should be working together to assure that every patient
gets the best treatment possible and that we get paid for
providing that treatment - not slamming a portion of our patient
population.
                        -Karen Lynch, CPO