Saving money, improving lives: Congress no longer pays for Medicare ED devices

[MillCreek]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-medicare-pay-erectile-dysfunction/story?id=27370816

So all you impotent Medicare leeches can start paying for your own penis vacuum pumps, already!  

[lee n. field]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-medicare-pay-erectile-dysfunction/story?id=27370816

So all you impotent Medicare leeches can start paying for your own penis vacuum pumps, already!  

What do they cost?  Not the sex toy ones, the ones a urologist might recommend.

[MillCreek]

 For the medical grade devices available by prescription, between $ 250 to $ 500, depending if they are manual or battery-operated, and the level of accessories included.  The price soared once Medicare started covering them.

[vaskidmark]

Will Medicare still pay for the Home Health Nurse/Aide to set up/operate the device?

stay safe.

[Jamisjockey]

For the medical grade devices available by prescription, between $ 250 to $ 500, depending if they are manual or battery-operated, and the level of accessories included.  The price soared once Medicare started covering them.

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There's a freaking surprise.  Another side effect of government interferrence in the market.

[lupinus]

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There's a freaking surprise.  Another side effect of government interferrence in the market.

Well now that the funding has been removed, it should deflate rather quickly.

[roo_ster]

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There's a freaking surprise.  Another side effect of government interferrence in the market.

Indeed.  See education, health care, and pretty much every place gov't sticks its grubby fingers.

[MillCreek]

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There's a freaking surprise.  Another side effect of government interferrence in the market.

This applies to a whole lot of durable medical equipment, in which prices soared after Medicare/Medicaid starting covering it.  The scammers and opportunists soon follow.  A classic example of this were the electric scooters that had the commercials on late night TV.  You may recall the FBI raiding the corporate offices of some of those companies a few years back, and the fraud arrests and convictions that followed.

[MillCreek]

So if you cannot afford your vacuum penis pump, try the Mediterranean Diet instead:  http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Prevention/48947

[brimic]

   
Saving money, improving lives: Congress no longer pays for Medicare ED devices

I originally read that as Congress was getting free Medical ED devices, and thought "isn't enough that congressmen boff interns, minor male and female prostitutes, children on 'sex trips' to foreign countries, or if they are really inept, strangers in airport bathrooms?"

[MillCreek]

Congress does still pay for 'a wide stance', when prescribed by a healthcare provider.