Obama and all federal bureaucrats will keep their taxpayer
paid gold plated medical care covering all contingencies.
"catheter-associated urinary tract infections; surgical site infections after bariatric surgery or coronary artery bypass; and manifestations of poor glycemic control."
Not paying for treatment of infection -- almost any infection can be claimed to be "preventable" -- , not paying for diabetes complications, if they can be blamed on "poor glycemic control" -- what is going to happen to those people -- if this isn't rationing, what is?!
They also consider preventable and won't be paying for accidents: "falls that result in dislocation, fractures, or head injuries; burns and electric shocks"
Everything is all your fault and Obamacare won't cover it. If you have an accident or acquire an illness that "THEY" consider "preventable" your medical care is not covered. And if Medicaid and Medicare won't pay for it, watch private insurance exclude those also -- for however long there is private insurance.
"Since Medicare enacted its policy of not paying for preventable events, private insurers have begun to do the same"
Instead of focusing on eliminating fraud and abuse in Medicaid and reforming Medicare, they are not paying for treatment, let them all die!
And as for things that happen in hospitals -- are all patients supposed to sue the hospital now?
Obamacare is worse than anything anyone could have imagined and this is going to get much worse.
With abortion, everything is preventable. So does that mean we will be abolishing medicare?
Well, there go the abortionists.
Just wait till the first time granny falls and breaks her hip in the hospital and they refuse to treat it because Medicare won’t pay...
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You’re fat because you have poor self control and eat lots of junk food. Your heart attack and hospital stay can be directly attributed to your obesity. And since your obesity is something you refuse to control, we ain’t gonna pay for your heart attack.
Just wait.
No doubt that ObamaCare contributed to this.
What are the odds that if the insurer won’t pay for it, somehow it will become the financial responsibility of the patient? Oh and don’t forget that if it is related to pre-existing conditions-like you being obese or a smoker, it is YOUR FAULT and not covered either. REPEAL the entire egregious ObamaCare bill!
Pregnancy is preventable.
rationing.
Pregnancy is ‘resonably preventable’. Does this mean Medicaid will no longer cover abortions?
Death Panels. Pure and Simple.
Media assists Demoncrats in saying Paul Ryan’s Budget proposal will kill Granny. Well, no, the HHS is doing it now.
Get the government the hell out of healthcare.
Oh, sweet. Under the new Medicaid rules, I would have had to pay for having my broken elbow repaired after I fell while crossing the street on an Army post. Even though the Army did an investigation and determined that I fell because it was a construction zone which I had to cross to get to the parking lot--that just confirms that the injury was preventable (they could have put the construction zone elsewhere, right?).
When you get right down to it, most conditions are preventable. Well, Obama *did* claim that Obamacare would save money.
This list is similar to existing practice with a twist. If a hospital admits neglience or neglience is demonstrated through a civil proceeding, Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance must be reimbursed. The legal term is subrogation. Neither government nor private insurers will initiate the proceedings. They essentially pile on the plaintiffs case, doing nothing to contribute to the case. However, they will take the plaintiffs judgment if the plaintiff does not include reimbursement.
This policy seems to be taking a more active role. Government will probably require more hospital reporting potentially increasing costs. In addition, government may decide to become the judge of these acts. Government can just refuse to pay making its own judgment. Most of the major cases are already handled through litigation and voluntary hospital settlements.
I see this policy primarily as a tool to stiff health care providers. Health care providers will in turn pass the added costs to consumers. I am not sure anyone can provide much evidence on many minor cases. Unfortunately, hospitals cannot eliminate all of these incidents. Some level of these incidents will still occur no matter the care taken.
Welcome to Obamacare! Please answer the questions from the health care police or go directly to jail.
The reps said--'No Manual, just do what you do and we'll tell you when you violate...'
I walked out and the rest of my colleagues followed.
This is just the start. By the time they are finished...there won’t be anything that isn’t the patient’s “fault”.
The idea that any of this will “save money” is laughable...because failing to treat these issue ...will lead to far more serious ones I would expect.
They are broke. and rather than step up to the plate and honestly admit it...they gonna play games with We the People..their employers. That can’t lead to a peaceful collaborative outcome in the end.
Yes, indeed we should if a hospital does things like this to us:
""transfusing the wrong blood type; falls that result in dislocation, fractures, or head injuries; burns and electric shocks; catheter-associated urinary tract infections; surgical site infections after bariatric surgery or coronary artery bypass; and manifestations of poor glycemic control...
performing the wrong procedure; performing the procedure on the wrong body part, or performing the correct procedure, but on the wrong patient.""
Just tweeted ... does this mean everyone to be aborted to prevent life?
After all, if no one was born, nothing medical would occur to them.
SHAMELESSLY HATEFUL Obama!
The government is only talking about not reimbursing events which occur in hospital, for which the hospital is held accountable. The hospital will have to eat the losses for such things as falls in hospital. But will Medicaid and Medicare pay for a sitter in with each disoriented post-op patient or sundowning demented patient? No.
Will the gov’t not require hospitals to treat patient-generated never events, such as skipping three dialysis treatments or hold-mah-beer injuries? No, EMTALA will still require hospitals to treat and stabilize patients, even if no payment is forthcoming.