Seniors and Car Accidents
By Woodrow Wilcox
On November 2, 2023, I wrote a letter to an insurance company to get help to fix erroneous information in a senior’s Medicare file.
When a senior is in a car accident and a claim for health is made, Medicare assumes that all the medical services given to that senior are related to the accident until the car insurance company notifies Medicare that the claim is settled. I have been told that box on a Medicare claim form can be checked by a doctor or other medical service firm to clarify that the current claim is not related to an accident. But that is usually overlooked.
In this case, Medicare failed to update the senior’s record for almost ten years. Fixing this matter is a lot of work. It is a lot of detailed work.
With some editing to protect the privacy of our client and others, here is the letter that I sent to an insurance company about a car accident and one of our clients.
Our client’s Medicare records and claims are being messed up. Medicare claims that it never received notice from your firm that his injuries from the car accident case of October 17, 2013 were closed. Medicare has relied on bad information in his file for almost TEN YEARS.
If your firm failed to file notice with Medicare that this case was closed, then I believe your firm failed its professional responsibility toward this client. If Medicare failed to update the file of this client after receiving notice from your firm, then people at Medicare failed in their professional responsibility.
I want to know who caused the harm to this client. Medicare still believes that your firm is primarily responsible for medical bills for him rather than Medicare. Bills are not being paid in accordance to Medicare’s normal rules. The widow is being hounded to pay bills that she never should have gotten.
Did your firm file notice with Medicare in a timely manner? If so, on what date? What can you do and what evidence can you send to us to help us correct Medicare records in a timely manner?
The help that I am giving the client and his widow is FREE OF CHARGE. This insurance agency helps all clients with Medicare medical bill problems. It is how we show that we really do care about our clients.
Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill case worker at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. He has saved clients of that firm over three million dollars by fighting mistakes and fraud in the Medicare billing system. Also, Wilcox wrote the book SOLVING MEDICARE PROBLEM$ which can be ordered through book stores or online.
Written on November 2, 2023 by Woodrow Wilcox.
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