Does Medicaid/Caresource cover for contacts?
I live in Ohio btw. Does Caresource cover for contacts for at least pay for half or anything? Do you guys know any eye doctors in Ohio, (Colombus, Chillicothe, or even Circleville) who accept Caresource for contacts? Please help asap! Thanks! :)
How far along am I, and when do I see the doctor?
Gestation is measured from the first day of your last period. What may be happening is if you've accidently used a calculator that asks for your date of ovulation (essentially, 14 days after the first day of your last period). Oddly enough, you are technically 2 weeks into your pregnancy at the time of ovulation, even though you haven't conceived yet... kind of seems silly, doesn't it? As far as the dr vs midwife question, are you planning an in-hospital birth or a home birth? Doctors are strictly in-hospital care providers. Midwives may or may not be both, depending on their qualifications and the hospital policies. Either way, i would make a list of questions about things that are important to you about what kind of care the doctor/midwife leans toward. I've been blessed with a very hands-off and minimal intervention doctor (in other words, he prefers to let birth be natural unless an obvious need for help arises). Other doctors prefer to do more interventions, which can work too. Midwives also vary with respect to 'when' and 'how much' to intervene in the labour/birth process so a midwife isn't automatically the 'au natural' choice. The best thing for you to do would be to read some good books like 'Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn' (Simkin, et al) and think about what you and your husband want out of the process. Yes, the first appointment is ideally at 8 weeks, but it doesn't have to be then. The best thing for you to do is just take a good pre-natal vitamin and take care of yourself in the mean time. There are lots of good books out there (such as the one above or the 'Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy) that can give some guidance for recommended 'do not do' type stuff. In the first 12 weeks, there isn't a lot they can do other than help you manage any early pregnancy symptoms and keep an eye on you for any pre-misscarriage warning signs. Early pregnancy warning signs can also be looked up online ( i bet there's a few questions on Y!A). Otherwise, you only need to seek medical help if you're concerned that an emergency is in progress and then it should be pretty obvious because it'd either involve you feeling very sick, being in a significant amount of pain, or are bleeding from your vagina.
Michigan Medicaid Health Plan Question ASAP?
The Michigan Medicaid benefit includes dental coverage but the benefit is not administered by any of the states contracted Medicaid health plans. If you are a Michigan Medicaid beneficiary enrolled in a health plan, you would need to locate a dentist that accepts Medicaid. The dentist would bill Medicaid for services and not the health plan. Dentists accepting Medicaid are difficult to locate and often have long wait times for appointments. Many Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC's) offer dental services and accept Medicaid enrollees. All of the health plans contracted with the state of Michigan cover, at a minimum, the same portions of the Medicaid benefit included in the health plan contract. The Michigan Quality Check-Up brochure is a good tool to use to compare Michigan Medicaid health plans.
If a U.S. citizen has cancer but no medical insurance, can he/she still get treatment somehow?
YES! My live in girlfriend and mother of my daughter got brain cancer a few years ago. No insurance on her. Went into the hospital with seizures one evening, a day or two later there was the diagnosis of a brain tumor that they need to take a biopsy of. She told the surgeon that she didn’t have insurance, he replied that the state would take care of it. And it did. The only time treatment was delayed was while they were finalizing her medicaid application and even then the pharmaceutical company’s “compassionate care” policy got her the $10,000 prescription within a week of it being prescribed.She was simultaneously given radiation treatments, which appeared to do nothing. Then she had to have a “debulking operation” where they operated on her brain and took out as much cancer as possible without killing her or leaving her badly handicapped. It left her with no vision on one eye and poor vision in the other, and somewhat of a zombie.The surgery was followed up with chemotherapy. Go in for an infusion, feel like shit, recover for the next week and then go back in for another infusion. After several months she discontinued this at her own choosing. It seemed that the treatments were just keeping her alive so she could suffer another day.It was about a year after discontinuing treatment before she died. No one survives brain cancer. All of the expenses were paid by the state. She did have to show more or less zero net worth and savings to qualify for the medicaid. I suspect the person that asked this question thinks it is great that she got treated but I am not so sure. I couldn’t tell that any of the treatment did anything to extend her life except for the debulking procedure which, she would have died within a week without. Unfortunately, life does not mean a quality life. The state provided medical treatment just extended a life that had more or less ceased to have meaning very early on. The money spent would have been far better used for our daughter’s college fund, or most any other purpose. So, in this case, cancer insurance seemed to produce far more heartache than relief.