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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Another one bites the dust.
Got an email that my Sears Optical is closing December 1. Sears Optical is one of the few places that takes my Medicare part D.

So I picked up my Rx at Sears, went to eyemart and bought two Cheapie distant vision driving glasses for $50. One pair stays in the car, other stays in the truck.

Guess I'll be looking for another place that will take my Medicare D, Eyemart won't.

Before I had Medicare, I could go to a walk-in clinic. Now I can't use the Dr's I used too. How many have difficulty finding places that will take your Medicare?
 
It sounds like you are talking about a Medicare Advantage plan, not a Medicare Part D (drug) plan. Finding health care providers who have contracts with specific Medicare Advantage plans can be a problem----especially if you are seeking treatment outside the plan's primary target area. That's one reason that I chose to stay with traditional Medicare and a Medicare Supplement plan.
 
To find a provider, go to the IUHEALTH website. It has a link to find providers in your area. It looks like there are seven ophthalmologists and four optometrists in Terre Haute.

https://www.iuhealthplans.org/medicare-advantage-plans
 
And Sears optical has just changed the name several months back. It is now Pearl Vision and actually had been owned by them for years. I have gone to Sears Optical for years and found this out last summer I think it was, might have been last spring. Need to get up to get my glasses adjusted again.
 
The trouble is with IU supplemental insurance. My Mother tried that for one year. Yes it is cheap but nobody around here would take it after that first year. IU under pays and is slow with even that. So most Doctors just refuse to take it. The local clinic, that my Mother used all the time, told her it took them over six months to be paid for a routine office visit. So they declined taking it after that.
 
Not trying to start anything. But ever since the ACA came in. We are down to one doctor in this county. He does not take Medicare. For that you go 25 miles down the road. The nearest hospital is 75 miles. Had one 40 miles away but the ACA closed that. It is getting harder to find health insurance and care in rural counties.
 
All insurance is a scam. The premiums are rising 20-30% each year. Last time I checked, my health insurance won?t cover eyes, dental, and hearing aids that are all part of my health. However they will cover pregnancy, vasectomy and vasectomy removal that I?m afraid are useless at 63. I could say more but I think you get the picture.
 
Walk in to office, ask to talk right to the doctor. Say, "I am here to pay you in cash. Not your PC, you. In cash. Green money. How much?"

You may be surprised what you can get.
 
That is how I pay and it is alot cheaper. I had another doctor tell me no medicare. As he put it. Why do a hundred dollars worth of
service. Then wait 4-8 months to get a ten dollar repayment.
 
maybe the reason is you get your exam there for little, then go somewhere else and buy the glasses. not saying it's wrong, but the money is probably in the glasses not the exam !
 
Well George, I guess we could all argue that anything that makes money is a scam, including insurance companies. They don't exist to lose money that's for sure. But I must ask you, what is vasectomy "removal"? Sounds painful and would certainly leave a guy even more than useless. You meant "reversal" right?
 
When one assumes I did something they are just WRONG.
I got two pair of polarized Rx glasses from Sears after I returned from Florida in March 2018.
 
zenni.com get glasses real cheap really fast. You just have to get your prescription from your eye exam.
 
For all the people guessing what Medicare coverage I have, this should settle it.

I've had I U Health for 4 years now and am very happy with it. I suppose if I were not healthy and on expensive meds, I would be looking for something different. I don't spend a time on meds.

One trip to ER cost me nothing.

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I just upgraded my delta plan to the best one they offer. My total IU Health bill is $60/mo

My only problem in finding a Dr is all the old Dr's aren't taking new patients. So I have a young Dr and I have to go to a different walk in Clinic, which I'm happy with. So far the Clinic hasn't charged me for a visit. One time they charged me $10 for an X ray Dr to look at it.

Again I'm happy with I U Health. Just have to go to Dr in their network. No different than when I had private insurance.
 
I ordered a pair from zenni.com and wasn't happy with them. I'm both near and far sighted. My reading glasses are +2.25. Get them at Walmart cheaper than zenni. Zenni's shipping is a deal breaker.
 
Thank you, TomIn. I wondered how he was getting an eye exam, too. I'm 70 and have paid my own exams and one pair of glasses since getting on Medicare. Those 'Advantage' plans are advantageous only to the sellers. I paid for Medicare all my working Life, so why would I use a private company. BTW, I still go to the same Doctors I had before the ACA act was thought of.
 
Oops my mistake vasectomy reversal. Not that that sounds less painful.

Making money is not a scam. I?m out opposed to value added ventures. I?ve been in business for most of 40 years. I can tell you insurance companies have paid more to lawyers than to me and my companies combined...... that?s the scam.
 
Had a eye exam once and wanted new lense put in my frames, was told by the gals they wouldn't/ couldn't do that, so went to walyworld. went back to Dr. and told him the lense was not right and of course he blamed walyworld. Told him the situation with his gals, he tells me that they would do what I wanted. He got me new correct lense, put in my frames as I wanted in the first place, then didn't want me back.
 
Talk about getting glasses adjusted. I adjust my own. The people doing the adjusting at these places don't know how they feel on my face. They go by looks.
 
As to the cost of insurance, when I was a kid the local doc had one nurse who also was the receptionist. When his son came on board they hired a full time receptionist,when the son retired there were around six full time workers and they all need to be paid.
I asked why he had so much help, and he said all they did was paper work that the Government demanded.
Why does the GOV have the right to tell a hospital that they can have a new MRI machine(they have three now),and the health center down the block can not replace the one they have had for twenty years?
 
IU's Medicare Select Plus is one of the three IU Medicare Advantage Plans offered in Vigo county. With "original" Medicare (and Medicare Supplement plans) you aren't limited to doctors in a specific network, but that my be a moot point. The last time I hunted for a new primary care doctor, most of the doctors in my part of Indianapolis seemed to be getting ready to retire and weren't taking new patients or were tied into various "arrangements" and served only members of particular networks.
 
(quoted from post at 14:41:45 11/23/18)
Why does the GOV have the right to tell a hospital that they can have a new MRI machine(they have three now),and the health center down the block can not replace the one they have had for twenty years?
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Are you in Canada?

I know for a fact a few years ago that Quebec hired an American company to bring in portable semi-trailer equipped modern MRI machines.
Because the Canadian GOV would not provide funds to purchase new MRI machines.
The Canadian Feds told Quebec to cancel the contract and get them out of the country or else they would loose federal funding for anything medical.
 
I can't use Ambicare, a walk in clinic at the entrance of Honey Creek square that I used before I went on medicare. There is a dermatologist IU med won't pay. Eyemart won't take my vision plan. So there are limits, but I spend less on IU Med than I did before I turned 65.

You are right. There are 3 different network of Dr's. that will take IU Med, however the Old Dr's don't want new patients.

So I always ask if they will take IU Med. No issue with my dentist and dentist that does root canals.
 
I could never adjust them and the curent lady tyhat does it is only one of 2 ever to get them to fit corectly. And before she got into managing the store she worked at grinding the lenzes. Probably 20 years she has been taking care of me.
 
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