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> they proactively sent a doctor out a few times for housecalls

The article talks about these housecalls:

"The home health visits are designed to look for illnesses or codings that can increase risk scores. They very much are not looking for conditions that require medical intervention. This “free home health visit” scam is so profitable that an entire industry has sprung up of companies that send nurses out on behalf of the insurance companies."

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If I look at it post-hoc and cynically, maybe their motivation was to get him off the "insurance" company's books (electing hospice kicks you back onto vanilla Medicare). But it was objectively needed and they spent time to do the job, on a major holiday even.

I've no idea what the dynamic would have looked like if they came to different conclusions than me and we were at odds, but all I can say is that the quality of care always heavily depends on having an advocate.

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