Re: Medicaid paying for rx

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There is no reason for a doctor to drop a pt

w/Medicaid anymore - they can simply choose not to

accept it. The parent would still have to pay the

office visit copay. Not all offices may be aware of

this change in Medicaid policy (it's been a few years)

but the parents could call Medicaid and confirm this

(I've billed w/Medicaid of AL and it could possibly be

different elsewhere although I doubt it) and then

advise the doctor's office. Doctors now have a right

to pick and choose whether they want to accept

Medicaid from a patient. They can literally accept it

on a few patients and not the rest. Medicaid had too

much trouble w/providers not accepting Medicaid when

they were required to do all or none, so they changed

their rule to allow docs to accept only as many

Medicaid patients as they wish. I confirmed this with

Medicaid in AL last year when we wanted to accept a

few Medicaid patients who were very indigent but not

become known as " medicaid providers " .

Someone else said that Dr G's orders were accepted by

their Medicaid (of course only if filled in the state

where you live-it won't pay out of state pharmacies as

far as I know).

Good luck... best thing to do is ask the Medicaid in

your state.

HTH-

--- Googahly@... wrote:

> I have a question for those of you who have Medicaid

> pay for your child's

> prescriptions. Do they have to be ordered by a

> Medicaid-accepting doctor?

> Does Dr. G accept Medicaid?

>

> There's been a lot of discussion on another list I'm

> on about

> non-Medicaid-accepting doctors hearing that a

> patient has Medicaid and then refusing to treat

> the patient anymore. I'd like to see if I can get

> some of the meds paid

> for by Medicaid but since the doc that prescribes my

> son's meds doesn't

> accept Medicaid, I don't want to risk having him

> refuse to treat my son. Any

> experience in using private insurance to pay a doc

> to monitor the child and

> prescribe but then having Medicaid pay for the rx?

> Gaylen

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