Medi-cal Fraud Does anyone mind the store?
There was a time when I had otitis media in the left ear. Once the diagnosis was known I was told to go to the hospital for a picc line placement. I'm disabled & wheelchair bound. At the hospital they had no idea why I was there. Al squared out I was admitted & had a picc line done. Medi-cal requires a 3 day stay but instead of being released I was moved to an acute care facility close to my home. At 50 I was in a nursing home but no one knew why. To make matters worse the picc line wasn't used. Mother's Day arrived & my outing plans with my family was derailed. I was forced to do physical therapy that increased the excruciating pain & made the full body tremors more violent. I sat in that home for over a week, unable to eat the foul meals that 1 day came with a roach! YUCK! All the WASTEFUL services, heparin shots (really?), the cost of the room & PT weren't needed. I got so furious over the blatant fraud & unused p...