Below is an answer to a letter complaining that for us to ask for money up front or
a major insurance company guarantee ,carved in stone and that we expect this prior to you meeting the doctors
/ hospital seemed to her as ridiculous.:
" While you are correct that if I held their money before they
met the doctors, I would be in a position to screw them, I have never done so. If I had cheated a vulnerable person, it would
be the last one, since bad news travels fast. Then I would get blacklisted, deported and worse, possibly arrested and all
my bank accounts frozen. This would then be all over the news, especially on the Internet.
Why don't I simply let patients see the hospital
first and let the insurance pay afterward, so it doesn't look ridiculous ?
Because my relationship with the doctors is that we are two separate organizations.
We do the marketing for different transplant teams. Medicare does not pay for non American hospitals/ nor non American doctors.
When ever the doctors meet up with a patient who I have had the first contact with, they try to eliminate me financially ,
which is their human nature, and greed. The patient may pay less and the doctors make more if I simply GO AWAY after I introduce
them.
Besides I also keep the doctors on their toes , since I can change to an
other transplant team (and they fear this) if they want to add any extra charges, to the patient, in the middle of the
hospitalisation. The patient will be trapped with this first transplant team, without me. I work with the
several Transplant teams but I am not part of the teams.
My organization will guarantee the transplant success, within
certain limits, while the doctors will not even talk about this.
Besides having to live with myself , I have family who are
very, socialistic inclined , who ask me tough questions about the donor's future, etc.
Why should people believe me
? I like them to be well informed . Read on the Internet what our critics have to say. The Christian Science Monitor
and a British paper ( we added that page to our web site) blasted us for using live donors as well as any dirt they could
find.
But they did not report any deaths nor any poor results and they
did not report anybody being cheated out of money.
Thus, each person who comes to us for a live transplant frees up
a place on the cadaver waiting list for somebody else who can not afford a live donor transplant surgery. I offer
kidney patients a transplant in two weeks instead of a 5 year wait . I offer Liver patients a chance to survive since the
US cadaver list is also about 5 years.
I welcome your opinions as well as having a chance to respond
to you.
Regards,
