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mahina

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13. Could you please elaborate for those of us who are not inclined to readily click links?

Reply to Nigrum Cattus (Reply #9)

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 12:49 PM

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Four paragraphs or so? Thank you very much!

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Kicking with DISGUST!!!! Faux pas Yesterday #4

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there is help for patients Nigrum Cattus Yesterday #9

Could you please elaborate for those of us who are not inclined to readily click links? mahina Yesterday #13

Wow! Thanks Nigrum Cattus! That's a great source for fighting insurance denials! BComplex Yesterday #16

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Requiring conservative therapy is a Medicare Advantage/Insurance concept - it has no place in Standard Medicare Ms. Toad 22 hrs ago #21

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How many of those services have anything to do with diagnosing or managing cancer? Plus, Silent Type 14 hrs ago #26

It was in my post - a skin graft. Ms. Toad 14 hrs ago #28

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Nonsense. Ms. Toad 12 hrs ago #31

None of those are life threatening conditions. Let's be honest here. No it's not fantasy that it will happen quickly Silent Type 2 hrs ago #33

And just now would you know "none of those were life threatening' Ms. Toad 2 hrs ago #34

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