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You don't want to know why something isn't covered by insurance that you think might help you,

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or your doctor thinks might help you, or it's an alternative. I'm going to read you this.

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This is Medicare guidelines section 2251.3. I'm quoting this to you.

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A treatment plan that seeks to prevent disease and enhance the quality of life,

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or therapy that is performed to maintain or prevent deterioration of a chronic disease

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is deemed not medically necessary. I'm going to read this to you again.

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A treatment plan that seeks to prevent disease, that sounds like a good idea, right?

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A treatment plan designed to prevent disease or enhance the quality of life also sounds like a good

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idea, or a therapy that is performed to maintain or prevent deterioration of a chronic disease.

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So if you already have a disease and we're trying to prevent it from getting worse,

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all these things that I just mentioned are deemed by Medicare not medically necessary.

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So when you go to comment on a post like I might make or some other providers might make and you

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want to go, oh, I don't believe it because it's not, if it's not covered by my insurance,

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I don't believe it's worthwhile. This is Medicare guidelines and most

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insurances, if you don't know some people will comment on this and say absolutely this is the

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way it is. People who are in the insurance business know what Medicare decides sooner or later will

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be what other insurance companies decide to do. Medicare sort of sets the table and everybody

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else sort of just follows along comes to dinner. Bottom line is just because it's not covered

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doesn't mean it's not good. It just means that they consider it not medically necessary.

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Anyway, let me know in your comments what you think of this. Put it in the comments

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below. Go ahead, write it down there. Dr. Dave Morrison, Magnolia Medical Center here,

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Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Take care today.