Wellness

[Tinkrbl44]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

UHC keeps calling me to set up a housecall. I really don't need a visit so maybe I should answer the phone and tell them that and stop calling me.

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@SilleeMee 

Just say no thank you and let them move on to calling others.  I think they try very hard to at least reach each policyholder,  and if they aren't interested, fine, but they want to indicate someone was contacted.   

[Pook]

I just tell them to remove my name from the list and they do for therest of the year.  The money they pay to these nurses and the bribes to get people to participate can be used to really provide benefits that will actually benefit most!!  I know many nurses and they say most who get those visiting jobs are nurses who do not want to really do the hard messy nursing and call them "flunky nurses"!  I actually do not know anyone who wants these visits and that is why they try to bribe everyone.

  It's a choice so if anyone wants them fine for them.  

[CelticCrafter]

JMO, I find that annual Medicare Wellness Visit at the doctors office to be intrusive enough without letting them into my home.

I won't do it.  My husband does because he's afraid he'll be fired for not doing it.

We have a supplement plan so there really is no need for a PCP given the fact that none of his communicate with each other because only one uses My Chart.

[CelticCrafter]

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@Toppers3 wrote:

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@pdlinda wrote:

@Goodie2shoes   I have a very good rapport with my PCP and have no need to have any 3rd parties monitoring my health. 

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Yeah...

I also personally feel that these home wellness checks are a duplication of the exams that our own doctors do when we come in to see them for an office visit exam.

My husband and I also get called by our insurance company to have a nurse come over to our home to do these in-home exams. They also try to persuade us that it's free to us.

They are relentless in calling and leaving messages and will not stop calling until you talk to them.

They usually start calling around the beginning of the year.

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@Toppers3 a true Wellness Visit is free.

[CalminHeart]

I worked for a huge international insurance/securities company for nearly 40 years. For 20 of those years, they also had a medical insurance subsidiary.

There is no way I'd let my medical insurance company make a housecall. As another poster said, they look for problems and ways to increase your rates.

[kaydee50]

No.  I don't even go to a doctor on a regular basis only when I have a problem.  UHC does contact me at times to remind me to set up an appointment.  I ignore them.

[Still Raining]

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@AZfem When you block them, they call on a different line, seriously. They keep finding new lines to call on. 

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I just updated my iPhone and was cleaning up in there.  My blocked list is so long I can't even deal.  Once I swear I caught them switching numbers midstream.  I think they can choose to go out over the "main" number or not.

[TeezNu]

I do gladly participate in these United Healthcare Housecalls, and have found personal benefit from them - mainly all the time needed to discuss even the most minor of concerns.

As a retired corporate accountant/auditor, I would like to offer a different perspective. I have long suspected that another very important reason for the insurance company to offer this benefit, is for them to verify the actual existence of the patient, and the issues, medication, etc. for which the provider has filed claims.  Medicare and other healthcare fraud is very real, and ultimately increases costs and taxes for all of us.

I strongly urge everyone to review your monthly Explanation of Benefits for unusual and unknown activity.

https://www.medicare.gov/basics/reporting-medicare-fraud-and-abuse

[chrystaltree]

My friend scheduled her UHC visit for next week.  She thinks they are pointless since she has her own healthcare providers and doesn't need some insurance company nurse taking up her time.  Last year I convinced her to just go along with it and get over with.  My guess is the real reason of those visits is just verify that beneficiaries are are alive and they are the ones using their cards but I did not tell her that.  She has never used that Ucard benefit.  She doesn't know how it works so I suggested she ask the nurse to walk her through it.  No point in leaving money on the table.

[Shelbelle]

We have Aetna Medicare, they offer the same service and they constantly call us about it, we always decline. Not interested in seeing anyone else besides our trusted physicians.