For the last few years the insurance company that manages Medicare for me, United Health Care, has been trying to get me to sign up for one of their "house call" visits, promising a "health care professional" visiting me at home. The visit will include "important health screenings." I was told I would also have a chance to check my current meds, go over my diet, and get educational materials.
I always said No to this idea, not particularly wanting to share my medical information any more than necessary. But in September along came another offer from them, this time offering a $50 Visa gift card. Wanting to pay off my hearing aids faster, I signed up.
The person who came has FNP after her signature--Family Nurse Practitioner. She was nice enough, and we went over some of my meds but not all. She asked a few questions about them. There was no discussion of diet at all, and there were no educational materials. She took my blood pressure but what she told me the reading was isn't what she wrote down. It was 122/70 but she wrote down 122/80. It probably doesn't matter but it was part of the general impression I had that she just wasn't particularly attentive to the task at hand.
She talked quite a bit about her own health problems during the 40 minutes or so when she was here.
Wrapping it up, she said, "We could go over your immunizations and see if it's time for some of them but at this point, why bother?" and she was almost out the door.
I realized that I had received not one shred of evidence that she had been here, and so I said, "Do you have a card or some piece of paper just to remind me that you've been here?"
Then she quickly remembered that she was supposed to fill out a form and leave it with me. She put her name and mine on it and the date, and my BP. The rest of the form (two pages of boxes to have been checked) she left blank and was zipping out the door.
I'm posting this just in case anyone here has received similar offers of "house call" visits and wants to know how one of them went.
It's a painless way to obtain $50 but not especially useful otherwise, IMO.
I always said No to this idea, not particularly wanting to share my medical information any more than necessary. But in September along came another offer from them, this time offering a $50 Visa gift card. Wanting to pay off my hearing aids faster, I signed up.
The person who came has FNP after her signature--Family Nurse Practitioner. She was nice enough, and we went over some of my meds but not all. She asked a few questions about them. There was no discussion of diet at all, and there were no educational materials. She took my blood pressure but what she told me the reading was isn't what she wrote down. It was 122/70 but she wrote down 122/80. It probably doesn't matter but it was part of the general impression I had that she just wasn't particularly attentive to the task at hand.
She talked quite a bit about her own health problems during the 40 minutes or so when she was here.
Wrapping it up, she said, "We could go over your immunizations and see if it's time for some of them but at this point, why bother?" and she was almost out the door.
I realized that I had received not one shred of evidence that she had been here, and so I said, "Do you have a card or some piece of paper just to remind me that you've been here?"
Then she quickly remembered that she was supposed to fill out a form and leave it with me. She put her name and mine on it and the date, and my BP. The rest of the form (two pages of boxes to have been checked) she left blank and was zipping out the door.
I'm posting this just in case anyone here has received similar offers of "house call" visits and wants to know how one of them went.
It's a painless way to obtain $50 but not especially useful otherwise, IMO.
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