Here's how I look at it. I spent my money and surgeries before Medicare kicked in, so now Medicare can just sit there!!!!!! Hope it can be the reverse. I still have to be followed by the urologist for 2 years. I've said my dog probably in around about way saved my life. It was him I was picking up onto the vets table and my back went out big time. I knew I needed a MRI, but never expected what they also found. Neither did my doctor.