It was an ordinary day. Just received my quarterly Medicare summary notice in the mail and was attempting to figure out what everything on the notice means. Not that I will understand it all, but at least I usually give it a good try. One of the neat features of the notice is that it allows me to see all the information in larger print or in Braille or allows me to hear it in audio. It also tells me how to receive Medicare information in a variety of different languages if necessary. The languages that are listed are (in alphabetical order): Armenian, French, German, Haitian Creole, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog and Vietnamese as well as English and Spanish. There are 12 pages that tell me about the official summary of my Medicare Claims from the Center for Medicare & Medicare Services. It really is amazing that all my information from the previous three months has been documented for me and is listed on one of the 12 pages of the report. Things that are listed on the 12 pages tell about procedures that have been completed such as X-rays of particular parts of your body, special examinations that have been completed, biopsies that have been evaluated, destruction of precancerous growths on the body, immunizations that have been administered, injections of specific medicines, destructions of cancer skin growths on specific parts of the body and various other procedures that I have had done in the previous 3 months. Amazing that every person who is part of the Medicare program in the United States receives a statement every three months to examine to make sure that everything is correct. The report tells me if all my claims and costs for this past month have been approved and how much I must pay for specific procedures. Every single medical location that I had visited during the month is listed and the procedures that took place at that location are listed. I really don't make too many visits for medical procedures as some people may make and wonder how many pages they must get in the mail. And...how many trees must have been cut down and made into paper in order to send out these notices every quarter year. At times I am so thankful for the great medical programs that are part of our medical care in the United States. We can really be thankful for the care that is given to keep us in good health. I'm sure its not the same in all other parts of the world. To me, health care in the United States is fantastic. We have so much to be thankful for that people in other locations in the world do not have. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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