- Report: #341459
Complaint Review: AARP United Healthcare MedicareComplete
| AARP United Healthcare MedicareComplete PO Box 29800
Hot Springs, Arkansas U.S.A. |
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AARP United Healthcare Medicare Complete False Representation of Providers, Coverage; Congressional Investigation Required to Get Service in Texas Dallas
*Consumer Comment: My Experience with AARP Medicare Complete
*Consumer Comment: AARP Active in Medicare Fraud
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My Experience with AARP Medicare Complete
AUTHOR: SilverBee - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, July 12, 2012
POSTED: Thursday, July 12, 2012Well, it turned out there were numerous unexpectedly high copays for any lab work done by an outside agency--$96 for bloodwork, for instance. Within little over a month I had more than $400 to pay, which I'm now paying off a little at a time.
I had been told that I had twelve months during which I would be permitted to return to my previous coverage. I have to say that I had no problem with either disenrolling from the Medicare Complete or re-enrolling with the AARP Supplemental, and I've ended up paying about $25 less per month than my previous supplemental premium. Also, I enrolled in the Medicare Part D prescription coverage while talking to a Medicare representative over the phone, and I now have zero copay on generic medications for a premium of only $23 something a month taken directly out of my Social Security. No more big copays.
As it turns out, I'm better off than I was before--and I learned a big lesson. I'm really sorry to hear of the problems others have been having. And, just for the record, I think the improvement in my situation is directly related to what is receiving so much political bad-mouthing: President Obama's healthcare legislation.
#2 Consumer Comment
AARP Active in Medicare Fraud
AUTHOR: Solange - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Monday, October 18, 2010
POSTED: Monday, October 18, 2010Last year I was foolish enough to enroll in
a Blue Cross Blue Shield Partners advantage plan. I live in NC and my county
of residence enforces a monopoly on Medicare recipients. All I can subscribe to
is this BCBSP company, the emphasis being on the BS part of the acronym. This
is not even the real BCBS but a local subcontractor. I wonder how much
kick-back the county has received in this deal.
Anyway, I am in fairly good health so I had
few medical expenses but I suffer from glaucoma and this condition requires a
yearly check up or I might lose my eyesight. This is a medical condition, not
just vision care and Medicare did contribute toward the expense. The BCBSP
denied my claim. I tried to communicate in vain on the telephone, so I filed
for arbitration. This was denied too and I was appalled to find out that BCBSP
was also its own arbitrator! This is a sick joke and an insult to anyones
intelligence.
I called Medicare and demanded to be
reinstated immediately although I was in the middle of the year. After the
Medicare CR heard a summary of what was happening, this was granted and I was
released from BCBSP. I have the slight advantage to have been a senior
paralegal and I know my basic rights and how to fight for them, if necessary,
but not every senior can do that and it is immoral for any level of government
to become co-conspirator to the basest medical fraud: the one that insurance
companies perpetrate on their trusting subscribers.
The greatest shame goes to AARP for endorsing such a scheme, but I am not surprised. I stopped being a member of AARP some years ago when, after trying to contact it, I realized that most of the staff at AARP belongs to the 25-35 age group and they are in the business of making money, not taking care of old people. That acronym is only a cash-cow banner to their lucrative and political trade. And yes AARP, now you know how many of us feel about you.

