I’m on Medicare, but I still got stuck with a $25k hospital bill
Another common misconception about medicare is that they won&#x27;t deny tests or procedures that your physician deems medically necessary.  Medicare can and does issue such denials.  I worked next to a family medicine MD with a primarily medicare&#x2F;medicaid patient panel and he would spend at least two hours per clinic day on the phone arguing with various counter parties about the medical necessity of certain orders he had submitted.  He said it was by far the most frustrating part of his job.  If you look at where CMS policy is headed, I would expect more care dictated by flow charts and algorithms and less autonomy in the hands of physicians.