An elderly widow covered only by Medicare Parts A and B is a patient in your...

An elderly widow covered only by Medicare Parts A and B is a patient in your clinic. You know her resources are limited. She receives a very small pension and Social Security benefits. She is facing hip replacement that will involve surgery, hospital care, rehabilitation care prior to her return to her apartment, and outpatient physical therapy. Describe what steps your clinic might take to ease her financial burden for this much needed care.

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Firstly we should introduce insurance plans to her. There are many insurance policies present to provide appropriate treatment to the women and widows. Those plans will help the patients who had low income to give financial support in their medical treatments.

As we know there are many expanditure present in conducting hip replacement surgery, its rehabilitation and also physical therapy is needed. For all this interventions lot of money they need to spent. So e should provide an orientation to the patient about the financial needs and an approximate budget for those treatments.

There are many insurance policies such as obama care etc so instruct the patient to utilize those policies.

Nightingale answered 1 year ago

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