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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Beverly Hills. CA – October 6, 2009 — People who use medical marijuana for a variety of ailments that range from cancer to glaucoma to chronic pain, have been forced to pay out-of-pocket for the beneficial plant, or medicinals that use it’s active ingredient as a base.
GE Medical Services, (GEMS) in Beverly Hills, California, reimburses legitimate users of medical marijuana and other holistic modalities for the cost of natural medicinals. “We pay them to seek health,” said the Director of Patient Affairs Randy Ryder.
According to Ryder, members of the health e-care plan offered by GEMS receive physician consultations by phone and over the Internet. The company offers the consultations, follow-up care, and guidance, all for only $25 per claim, which they file online.
“The reason we are able to do this is that our Medical Staff do not deal with any prescriptions or drugs that could be life-threatening. We do not deal with any conditions that are life-threatening that need immediate physician or hospital care. We mostly deal with wellness and chronic issues, such as pain.,” Ryder said.
To help streamline the process, the company submits a claim to the patient’s insurance company for its services, including the $25 fee paid by the patient. In turn, GEMS assigns its income to the patient and the insurance company pays the patient. “For the first time people are financially empowered to choose medicines and care which they determine as being most beneficial to them,” said Ryder.
GEMS is a structured medical group with a primary specialty in Integrated Medicine and Pain Management. The credentialed group has a network of 72 major commercial insurance carriers and self-insured labor and trade unions in California. Their computer system is HIPAA compliant, encrypted, and secured.
“Our bona fides are impeccable,” Ryder said..
Some of the natural medicinals GEMS reimburses patients for include treatments using hormonal therapy, nutritional blends manufactured by a compound pharmacy, homeopathic substances, herbs, and medical cannabis.
Helping people to get reimbursement for these and other natural treatments has become a mission for the organization, which has also created a concordance that includes the uses of each strain of cannabis as well as dosages.
“Marijuana has legitimate medical purposes. More and more studies are showing that,” Ryder said. “It’s legal in several states and it’s coming out of the shadows. It’s time that it is treated like any other pharmaceutical by insurance carriers,” she said.
For more information please visit: https://www.gembpatients.com
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