For those that live in Warren Michigan HELP!!!!!!!!!!! Medicaid question...Please help.?

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

I just approved for Medicaid for me and my daughter. I now have to pick a health care plan and doctor. Who are some great doctors in the Warren area? I prefer a St. Johns doctor. Also hat plan should I choose? I have glasses, does the medicaid cover the expenses for buying new ones? What about getting dental work?
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Okay .....I don't know about Michigan but I used to investigate Medicaid elsewhere so perhaps I can give you a few suggestions. Many areas have "Medicaid Service Coordinators " to assist medicaid recipients ( you ) with issues such as finding physicians, determining what Medicaid does and doesn't pay for. If you don't have one you may want to call your local department of social services and see if they can refer you to one or refer you to Medicaid Providers ( Doctors, Dentists, Pharmacies, etc. ) or refer you to a Social Worker. In some areas you can phone Medicaid or Social Services and tell them " I am a medicaid recipient and my zip code is ______ and I need the names and addresses of allergists ( any doctor , etc. ) that accept medicaid ? " Generally speaking Medicaid is among the best insurance in the Nation and does pay for eyeglasses, dentists , etc. A word to the wise is that Medicaid does not pay for cosmetic procedures so if you want botox or a gold tooth, etc. Medicaid won't pay for that. Also be aware that some Medicaid Providers try to charge their Medicaid recipient patients ( like you ) money for procedures that they also bill to Medicaid. It is illegal for a Medicad provider to bill you any money at all if they bill Medicaid for the same procedure. One last word to the wise is to screen Medicaid Doctors by either checking them out on your computer ( to see if they have any complaints lodged against them by patients or if they are an attending physician at any good hospitals in your area ) . The Department of Health or Office of Professional Conduct usually maintains records on whether any complaints, charges or convictions/fines were ever levied against a physician. You can also visit or walk-in or drive by a Medicaid Doctors office and if it looks too dirty or too overcrowded you may want to look elsewhere. Lastly some Medicaid Providers will ( like Dentists ) will sometimes lie and tell you things like " Medicaid will pay for your fillings ( amalgams ) but not for your root canals ". That is not true and usually a Dentist may tell you this because he wants to charge you for the root canal because medicaid doesn't pay him as much money as he would like for the root canal. Sadly this is unethical but not illegal as long as the Dentist doesn't charge you and Medicaid for the same root canal. --- Good Luck and there should be special plans just for your daughter.
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