[tri-med] Re: NAN - Medical Insurance Vs. Medicaid dilemma...Input needed

Nan,

<<Dom is straight medicaid, and it has worked really well. 
But he has been with all the same docs since he was a baby 
and even though several of them do not take new medicaid, 
they keep him on.  I do not know how good medicaid will be 
for him as an adult.>>

When you say Medicaid is that the same as MediCal???  Phil 
has it and a private PPO through her dad.  Almost all of her 
doctors are preferred providers on the newest company's PPO.
Dr Grossman (the one I didn't want in the first place) seems
to be the one exception, but she'll take the MediCal so we 
still don't have ammunition to argue it.  Although they
did suggest they could bill the insurance and we could just 
pay the non preferred provider co pay & deductible....dream 
on.

<<The problem is transitioning into adult health 
care systems. It is more difficult to get some of 
the adult specialists to take medicaid and they 
really have no clue about what they are seeing re; 
Tri 18 stuff and the mental health stuff together.>>


Speaking of which, who do you use these days as a 
primary for Dom & Ali?  We can get one more physical 
out of Dr Brownlee, if we do it before Phil's 21st
birthday, but then we're being booted out the door.
I figure it's time to start thinking about it.  I've
got a backup ENT already.  And I guess Grossman will
keep us for a while longer too, not that she's much 
use...(the ones you don't want never go away it seems).

But I still haven't even found a doctor up here for Doug
& me.  I'm about ready to put the preferred provider 
list on the wall, and start throwing darts....

Fawna, mom to Miss P 20yrs (PT6p & Moya Moya Syndrome)

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