Paybacks. Good on the hospitals.
TOLEDO AREAS LARGEST EMPLOYER
ProMedica offers 1,200 buyouts
Federal reimbursement fallout said to spur action
BY MARLENE HARRIS-TAYLOR
BLADE STAFF WRITER
We are financially strong but we see reimbursements declining [from the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs] that are going to continue to decline so we are being proactive, Mr. Polizzi said.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/2013/11/05/ProMedica-offers-1-200-buyouts-Copy.html
Illinois parolees will be eligible for Medicaid next year
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The State Journal-Register
Posted Nov 05, 2013 @ 10:55 AM
Illinois prison officials estimate nearly 30,000 newly freed inmates will be eligible for Medicaid coverage in 2014 under President Barack Obama’s health care law.
The Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises newspapers reports state officials say better access to care for physical and mental health issues may help parolees succeed outside of prison.
The Department of Corrections plans eventually to help inmates connect with Medicaid before they’re released, so they can make a smooth transition into the state and federal health care program for the poor.
http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x450316939/Illinois-parolees-will-be-eligible-for-Medicaid-next-year
I wonder if a pay as you go would work? For example, I was in The Bahamas and needed care and went to the hospital. First was 45.00 to register. Then later they came to me with a bill for 97.59 for x-rays. 57.00 for casting. 40.00 for drugs. I left and didn’t feel as bad at all. In the United States, that bill would be around 2,500 for the same thing. The patient care is number one at the Bahamas hospital unlike the United States. Will my insurance pay my bills? Claim is in, but even if they don’t it was a great experience.
Obamacare is creating a two-tier health system. One for the Rich, and one for everyone else.
HOPEY-CHANGEY!!
My wife was recently seen at the Mayo Clinic and I was amazed at the number of foreigners, particularly from the Middle East, who were there for their medical care. I couldn’t help but to imagine that in the near future the only patients at the Mayo Clinic will be foreigners, government officials and the liberal elite. The rest of us will be waiting in line at a government clinic for our 10 minute visit with a nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant.
Insurance is a really simple business. You figure out how much you’re going to have to pay out, you add in admin costs and a profit, then you divide that by the number of your policy holders and you get the premium. It’s a truly simple equation, and every element in it interacts with every other element.
If you’re going to decrease premiums, you have to decrease payout. It can be done by limiting who you insure, reducing payments to physicians and hospitals, increasing deductable and co-pays, or reducing coverage. Those are pretty much the options. What the administration is trying to do is adjust the premium without incurring any of the consequences, and that just can’t happen in the real world. So they’re stuck in this circle of their own making where they want everything and are incapable of dealing with the fact that they can’t have it all. What we’re seeing from them is like a chess player who makes a move, then complains that every time he moves a piece his opponent moves one.
This is the classic “I want it all” mentality of the lib (and the average four year old) at its finest. They’re just frantically spinning because they can’t accept reality. Wait’ll they find out the Christmas pony isn’t going to be there...
The best Hospital system in the St. Louis metro area is not participating in Obamacare. This includes Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Siteman Cancer Center and St. Louis Children’s Hospital to name a few of the parts of the system.
I feel sorry for those in the midst of treatments that will be cut off come January.
So happy I have good employer paid insurance that is not a part of that crap.
They may reject Obamacare, but (IIRC by law) they are mandated to accept any patient, regardless of the ability to pay.
So, they will be hurting themselves by rejecting Obamacare.
Once a patient is admitted, however, they might be able to revert to Medicaid. Guess who gets stuck with those bills at the finale?