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Originally Posted by CardiacCoug
I agree with you, ERCougar. I heard an academic cardiologist the other day saying that Medicare should start requiring proof that patients have failed a course of medical therapy for angina before providing coverage for angioplasty and stenting.
It's gonna go over really well when a patient comes in with chest pain, we identify a coronary obstruction causing the chest pain, we can safely fix the coronary obstruction at the time of the angiogram, but we can't open the obstruction because Uncle Sam is trying to save money. I can hear myself saying "Well, we found the blockage causing your chest pain. I could have opened up the blockage, but Medicare rules don't allow us to do that yet. Talk to your Congressman if you don't like it."
America's not ready for that.
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Fear-mongoring • see: CardiacCoug's post