Medicare

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And try getting a straight answer from anybody. For my therapist, Medicare is

charged $233.05 an hour (I don't understand the 5 cents...). Medicare

actually pays $79.90; I pay $7 at the visit and bills me $10.07 by bill; and the

district " contractually adjusts " $142.17. This doesn't add up, however you do

the

math; but all I'm told is to pay it. My therapist was floored -- individual

therapy with a social worker privately runs about $100 and hour, not $233.

Another delightful problem is I have 30 days to contest each charge -- but

Medicare

takes 60+ days to tell me what they paid and what I am allowed to be billed.

I literally don't know what to do about it; no one can tell me anything other

than " this is the way we do it " . Talk about new math!