Medicare denies more claims than all private insurance combined

[Kasz216]

NJ5 said:

Kasz216 said:

NJ5 said:
For there to be a denial there has to be a request in the first place. Maybe people who use Medicare do more requests than others?

Statistics can often be misleading, in very weird and sometimes hard to see ways.

That's why there is a percentage their NJ5.  Medicare denies the most claims on average.

At best you could argue that for some reason people on Medicare put it more frivelous claims then other people.

However that's a fairly untenable arguement and one that if proven correctly would still be a negative indictment on public run healthcare since it still costs the same to process a successful claim.

 

^ bolded (that's what I meant, maybe I didn't explain myself well)

I'm not saying it's necessarily the case but maybe the people who have other insurers know the rules better for some reason. I mean if you had an extremely stingy insurer, at some point you'd stop bothering. Maybe it would help to see the data for several years to see if there's such a trend.

 

How would serveral years help?  I mean new insurees enter the market every year and old customers leave every year. 

A several year study would show no difference even if that was your contention.

The 2009 numbers do appear simialr however.  With Medicare being second this time to Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Which... I honestly didn't think even existed anymore.