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Only accepts cash as in currency? What kind of legitimate medical practice does that? Even if it is: cash, check or credit, but not insurance, it would be a rarity. I wonder if there is a phony medicare billing / tax fraud angle to this.
Many legitimate medical practices do this. Some call it concierge medicine when the clientele is mostly wealthier patients. Some doctors just can't be bothered with the hassle of dealing with the CMS or the Insurance companies to get their money. They take a long time to reimburse you, and sometimes what you get is only a percentage of what you billed for and they may deny the reimbursement completely for a whole bunch of bogus reasons. And while you waiting to get paid for your services you have to use your own money to pay your staff and cover the other expenses incidental to operating the pratice. If you were a practitioner who owns his/her own practice and you had to deal with the reimbursement process you would understand.
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This doctor to me doesn't seem to be a practitioner in the traditional vein. I've seen Youtube videos of her promoting alternative treatments like supervitamins and other private label type stuff. She seemed the Dr. Oz type who was more into pseudo research and selling stuff to her patients. Medicare/Medicaid would not reimburse her for those 'treatments' she was pitching on social media. Possibly she was in financial trouble and owed somebody some money.
I suspect that she had another man on the side and that he killed her in some jealous rage, or that the husband set it up. More the former than the latter. Why was her alarm system off when she was at home alone?
I think it's strange that her husband Mark hasn't even been interviewed -- that means they're likely looking at him very closely as a person of interest and probably have had him in an interrogation room for hours/days.
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I think it's strange that her husband Mark hasn't even been interviewed -- that means they're likely looking at him very closely as a person of interest and probably have had him in an interrogation room for hours/days.
He may have refused interviews, court of public opinion would chew him up and spit him out. No doubt he's under interrogation.
Reports say Dr S the breadwinner; doesn't appear true from the link above?
Then this...
An online account at Gofundme.com was opened Monday by Sievers' husband, Mark Sievers, with an introduction by her colleague Lenka Spiska, a licensed massage therapist and intuitologist.
The go fund me deal was updated:
I want to Thank everyone for their support and prayers during our time of great sorrow. This fund was set up by a good friend of ours but the monies raised are going to be donated to "Good Shepherd Ministries" of Ft Myers, FL in honor of Teresa. This is one of her favorite non for profit charities that she works very closely with to help get people off the street and to find affordable housing. I hope this does not offend anyone. Again, thank you for your continued prayers and G-d bless you all.
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Many legitimate medical practices do this. Some call it concierge medicine when the clientele is mostly wealthier patients. Some doctors just can't be bothered with the hassle of dealing with the CMS or the Insurance companies to get their money.
Good point. Now that you mention it, I did read an article about the concierge trend. The article mentioned that the doctors doing it often keep a small number of wealthy (and probably low maintenance), patients while dropping everybody else. They then up the service level by making house calls etc.
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Why was her alarm system off when she was at home alone?
It might be that it was always off. We had an alarm that came with a house we bought. Being low tech, I never fgured out how to really work it. After two false calls to the police, the thing wound up in the "always off position".
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Lol. Good thought. She could of had a stalker who became a patient and then became inpatient because things were not moving in the direction that he hoped. So he calls doc for a house visit. Doc rebuffs him. He gets mad. And boom.
Or, as doc already had her pick of admirers, she simply rebuffs him at the office and drops him as a patient. The spurned Romeo then buys access to those commercial "people finder" data mining services. After going to the docs web pages and You Tube sites for information to load into the search engine, about 90 minutes of data base searches later, he knows where the doc probably lives.
He then pays her a house call while fantasizing about lasting love initiated by romantic rendevous with a beautiful (and high income) woman. The doc tells him to uhmm.... "beat it". Things then go down hill fast.
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