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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Has any person applying for coverage ever been seen, treated, hospitalized, or had surgery for a bypass, angioplasty, stent, aneurysm, valve replacement, cancer, stroke, gastric or weight loss surgery, congenital abnormality, or organ transplant other than indicated elsewhere on this application?...................................................................................................................
Is the intent in the sentence above to just find out if the person has ever been treated for the listed conditions only?
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Is the intent to find out if the person has ever been treated for anything, including the conditions listed?
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Has any person applying for coverage ever been seen, treated, hospitalized, or had surgery for a bypass, angioplasty, stent, aneurysm, valve replacement, cancer, stroke, gastric or weight loss surgery, congenital abnormality, or organ transplant other than indicated elsewhere on this application?...................................................................................................................
Is the intent in the sentence above to just find out if the person has ever been treated for the listed conditions only?
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Is the intent to find out if the person has ever been treated for anything, including the conditions listed?
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ever means at any time (from birth until the present moment). It has no implications regarding the listed conditions, so the idea is whether the person has been seen, treated, hospitalized, or had surgery for the listed conditions at any time since birth. It doesn't ask, for example, if the person has been seen, treated, hospitalized, or had surgery for appendicitis or for an amputation or for cosmetic reasons or to reattach a detached retina, to name just a few possibilities.
- ever means at any time (from birth until the present moment).
- It has no implications regarding the listed conditions, so the idea is whether the person has been seen, treated, hospitalized, or had surgery for the listed conditions at any time since birth.
- It doesn't ask, for example, if the person has been seen, treated, hospitalized, or had surgery for appendicitis or for an amputation or for cosmetic reasons or to reattach a detached retina, to name just a few possibilities.
- The clause "other than indicated elsewhere on this application" simply asks you not to repeat information already given elsewhere in the application.
- CJ
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ever means at any time (from birth until the present moment). It has no implications regarding the listed conditions, so the idea is whether the person has been seen, treated, hospitalized, or had surgery for the listed conditions at any time since birth. It doesn't ask, for example, if the person has been seen, treated, hospitalized, or had surgery for appendicitis or for an ampu
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