Medical Discrimination

[fowler100]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? FL
Is this legal based upon a persons previous health, for example a doctor who has done a surgery and then the patient relocated and was seeking a new physician and based simply on the fact that it's another physicians work, can a person be repeatedly not treated??? Also would being on Medicaide determine a physicians refusal to accept you as a patient ???

 

[Just Blue]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? FL
Is this legal based upon a persons previous health, for example a doctor who has done a surgery and then the patient relocated and was seeking a new physician and based simply on the fact that it's another physicians work, can a person be repeatedly not treated??? Also would being on Medicaide determine a physicians refusal to accept you as a patient ???

Based on the total ambiguousness of your question...Yes. Possibly. Perhaps.

 

[ecmst12]

It is not only legal but COMMON for a doctor to refuse to accept a patient in the middle of a course of treatment with another doctor. The liability taken on by trying to clean up someone else's mess is just astronomical.

 

[barry1817]

medical billing

It is not only legal but COMMON for a doctor to refuse to accept a patient in the middle of a course of treatment with another doctor. The liability taken on by trying to clean up someone else's mess is just astronomical.

loved your response. Once a doctor takes over in the middle he owns the case.
And the adage of no good deed goes unpunished takes over.

It does get interesting that a doctor will refuse a case, because of problems, but won't help that patient by explaining the problems for the patient, but that is for another thread and another time

 

[lealea1005]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? FL
Is this legal based upon a persons previous health, for example a doctor who has done a surgery and then the patient relocated and was seeking a new physician and based simply on the fact that it's another physicians work, can a person be repeatedly not treated???

Yes. A Physician is under no obligation to accept every patient into their practice.

Also would being on Medicaide determine a physicians refusal to accept you as a patient ???

Quite possibly.

 

[ecmst12]

Actually doctors who don't participate with medicaid are PROHIBITED from seeing patients on medicaid.