Originally Posted by
drk
If they believe they have "Eye Insurance" and you're their provider, then they get "eye exams" (whatever the heck those are) for a low copayment. Not something that they have a specialist copayment and a deductable, like they truly need if they get their aged infirmities managed (and all retirees have cataracts and DM and HTN and vitreous degeneration and AMD, etc. ad nauseum). So you're constantly under pressure to educate these pennypinchers that they can't use their routine exam benefit.
So the so-called allure to accepting these Medicare/Retirees is to build your practice with medical services and provide a little optical services on the side. It sounds so easy. But it's not. It's "hard money" and not "easy money".
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