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Get this we did annual labs on all our residents in December and Medicare denied payment on all the cholesterol and lipid screenings. I called the lab to ask why and they told me that under the provisions of the new health care reform bill medicare would no longer cover rountine screenings for cardiac risk factors - they sent me a list of billing codes and it seems that Medicare will now only pay for these screenings if the patient has already had a heart attack or other established cardiac problem. Wait a minute I thought Healthcare reform was supposed to improve healthcare???????
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