Your idea to have your daughter contact a few surgeons to find out if they would see you is a good one. Here are some suggestions for surgeons to interview:
broken link removed: https://www.pamf.org/orthopedics/services/hip/resurfacing/ at Sequoia and Stanford. Clinic is at 795 El Camino in Palo Alto. Only does hips and knees. His associate is
broken link removed: https://www.pamf.org/dr-john-v-lannin.html who only works at Stanford.
Revision specialist:
broken link removed: https://orthosurgery.ucsf.edu/about/faculty/erik-hansen.html
Assistant Professor
Arthritis & Joint Replacement
1500 Owens Street
San Francisco, CA 94159
415-353-2808
About Erik Hansen, MD
Dr. Erik N. Hansen is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery in the Arthroplasty Division at UCSF and serves as the clinical fellowship director. His clinical and academic interests revolve around primary total joint arthroplasty, including the direct anterior approach to hip replacement surgery, as well as complex revision surgery.
Apart from his clinical practice, Dr. Hansen has a strong commitment to clinical research dating back to his medical school education. At that time, he took an additional year off to work in an orthopaedic basic science laboratory to understand the fundamentals of fracture healing. In residency, he was selected from his class to do an extra year of research, during which time he worked on several clinical projects focused on total joint replacement, orthopaedic trauma, and medical education. Over the past several years, multiple projects which he has collaborated on have been recognized for prestigious national awards, including the James A. Rand Young Investigator Award, the Mark Coventry Award, and the Chitranjan Ranawat Award. He currently serves as the UCSF lead investigator collaborating with several other major academic institutions on multicenter, prospective randomized clinical trials focused on improving outcomes following revision joint replacement surgery.
Dr. James Huddleston
Stanford Medical Outpatient Center
Redwood City, CA
Hip and knee revisions
Speaker at 2018 ICJR workshop on problem hips and knees
As for Medicare, i you’re enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan or a Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan, a change in residence, such as moving to another state, could qualify you for a Special Election Period (SEP). During your SEP, you’re allowed to enroll into a new plan that is offered in your new service area.
If you decide to permanently move somewhere that’s not covered by your current Medicare plan (that is, outside the plan’s service area), you need to tell your plan immediately. If you notify the plan
before you move, your SEP timeframe is four months long. It begins one month before the month you move and lasts for three more months after that. If you notify your plan
after you move, you can switch plans the month you provided notice of the move and up to two months after that.
You can switch to a new Medicare Advantage plan or Medicare Prescription Drug Plan during this period of moving to a different service area. If you prefer, you can return to Original Medicare.
If your current Medicare Advantage plan is not offered in your new service area, your Medicare Advantage plan is required by Medicare to disenroll you. If you don’t enroll in a new Medicare Advantage plan during your SEP, you’ll return to Original Medicare (Part A and Part B). If you’d like to sign up for a new Medicare Advantage plan after you moved and your relocation-based SEP is over, you generally have to wait for the Annual Election Period (October 15 - December 7).
If you don’t enroll in a new Medicare Prescription Drug Paln during your SEP, you might find yourself without Medicare prescription drug coverage, and you could face a Medicare Part D late-enrollment penalty if you decide to pick up this coverage later on. You may be able to enroll in a stand-alone Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan, or to get your Medicare coverage through a Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug plan — but outside of an SEP, you generally have to wait for the Annual Election Period (October 15 – December 7).
It's great that you're thinking about all your options. I know a move a a big undertaking, but it may be a really good plan for you.
Take care.
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