I think it’s unethical for a practitioner to discriminate against a patient based on the fact that he or she is on Medicaid. Furthermore, I think that by doing so you would be putting your own financial interests (no increase in tax money out of your pocket) above the medical interest of the patient- which I believe is in direct violation of the Canon of Ethics.
If some of you out there have an issue with the expense of the C-leg, then you should have issue with that for ALL third party payors, not just for those who are unfortunate enough to be on Medicaid. (Besides, you don’t want YOUR health insurance bill to go up any more than YOUR taxes – or do you just like to pick on poor people?)
We should be working together to assure that every patient gets the best treatment possible and that we get paid for providing that treatment – not slamming a portion of our patient population.
-Karen Lynch, CPO
