Posted on 07/19/2014 5:33:03 AM PDT by Innovative
The Obama administration on Friday backed down on restrictions of private insurance coverage for hospice drugs under Medicare, saying the regulations were preventing some terminally ill patients from having access to medicine.
Under Medicare's Part A hospital program, hospices receive daily payments for each patient but are responsible for all drugs related to a patient's terminal illness. Medicare Part D covers only prescriptions and medications for curative conditions that are unrelated to a terminal illness.
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There are only two ways you aren’t going to be adversely effected by the Demonic Party’s MarxistPOSCare - 1) By not getting sick or injured, and 2) by not getting old. Anybody that votes for a Demonic Party representative is either evil, ignorant beyond measure, or mentally ill...
Correct. It is in direct conflict with the individual patient's objective, which is to extend their life. It is truly astounding that so many brain-dead libtards and the other apathetic masses fail to grasp this reality... they will eventually, but by then it will be too late.
{ am a hospice patient. I only have Medicare A and B. I have no other illness than Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis for which I get 02, morphine, a muscle relaxer due to the IPF cough and a sleeping pill. I have had no trouble getting my meds at all. If I don’t get the 02 and morphine, I will be dead within the hour.
Very true. Valerie Jarrett will have blood on her hands, which in any case she will any way.
I pray for the traitor’s death every day..a painful death.
Between the drug regulation nightmare and the required pigeonhole diagnosis and duplicate charting requirements, it is a nightmare. another hospice nurse
more evil this morning.
Ideally, patients get into hospice a few months before they die to actually benefit from the service. The Nazis(CMS) have our administrators and physicians so cowered, they are reluctant to admit anyone who isn’t almost actively dying. This makes it difficult to manage efficiently making hospices go broke (and we are non-profit but if you can’t pay the bills you can’t survive)
Really frustrating professionally, I don’t think there is anything wrong with admitting someone, adjusting their medications, improving their state of health and discharging them which can and does happen with end stage cardiac, pulmonary and kidney conditions. A little morphine which was the drug of choice for these conditions for centuries can make a big difference at the end of the road. Sometimes more than a year of good quality time.
Prayers for you.
I was terminal from point of DX. I will choke or smother to death without the morphine. I cannot imagine my Christin based hospice allowing this to happen.
I have been on home hospice for 9 months. My DX is Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
AMEN!!!
I PRAY THE SAME PRAYER!!!
Our intermediary doesn’t require pigeonhole dx anymore.... we use the REAL ICD-9 for the 6 moth prognosis.
Hell of alot less ADRs too.
I have 2 patients that are on with us going on 3 YEARS! We got them stabilized and they continue to decline, continue to have < 6 moth prognosis.... but because they are cared for so well, they get some longevity as well as quality of life.
We had someone who lived for 6 years! She was the rarest of exceptions, of course. Then there are always those who die only hours after going on service. There are far too many of them. I think of all the palliative care they missed out on by the delay of decision either by their doctors, their families or the patients themselves.
100% agreed.
I have, literally, gotten in Doctor’s faces and DEMANDED an order to eval.
If the Pt./family want it and they are appropriate, I refuse to let some puffed up toad with an overinflated ego keep someone form appropriate palliation because the MD refuses to accept futility.
Nurses, beyond any other duty, are supposed to ADVOCATE for their patients. I’ll argue with a stump if it’ll benefit my patients!
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