If your doctor starts to bother you about your blood pressure next year, know the reason why.
Read this article of mine that was selected for publication on the most popular healthcare information site on the web.
Now that you have, it’s important to know that, starting in 2019 if you’re on Medicare or Medicare Advantage, the government will penalize your insurer and their doctors financially if they don’t reach these new goals.
Hundreds of thousands will benefit.
Hundreds of thousands will be harmed.
Which will you be?
These recommendations were written as guidelines for doctors.
The government is treating them as mandates.
If your doctor starts pestering you about your blood pressure, you now know the reason why—money is at stake.
Push back.
Challenge her.
Get her to defend why she thinks you will be one of the patients who will benefit and not one of those who would be harmed.
If she’s unwilling to take the time to discuss it, find a doctor who will.
A few extra bucks in their pockets is not worth the possible harm to your health.