Posted on 08/24/2012 5:37:13 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
A provision of ObamaCare is set to punish roughly two-thirds of U.S. hospitals starting this fall over high readmission rates, according to an analysis by Kaiser Health News.
Starting in October, Medicare will reduce reimbursements to hospitals with high 30-day readmission rates -- which refers to patients who return within a month -- by as much as 1 percent. The maximum penalty increases to 2 percent the following year and 3 percent in 2014.
Doctors are concerned the penalty is unfair, since sometimes they have to accept patients more than once in a brief period of time but could be penalized for doing so -- even for accepting seniors who are sick.
"Among patients with heart failure, hospitals that have higher readmission rates actually have lower mortality rates," said Sunil Kripalani, MD, a professor with Vanderbilt University Medical Center who studies hospital readmissions. "So, which would we rather have -- a hospital readmission or a death?"
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I fear Obama wants to kill off white seniors. What other explanation is there for this type of plan? The plan won't save money... good doctors will get around it by keeping marginal patients in the hospital longer.. well, until dems decide to put a stop to that...
If letting seniors suffer to death at home doesn't work, he'll give Social Security offices and NASA enough bullets to kill every citizen 3 times over. Oh, wait, Obama's already done that... We all suspect it's happening... that they're as bad as we think they are...
Thanks sickoflibs.
So I guess you are in favor of the Liverpool Pathway, aka backdoor euthanasia, used in the UK?
Well I’m not.
If they could receive the same care at home don’t you think they’d want to? Who in their right mind wants to be in a hospital instead of their home? And if the care was available at home then insurances wouldn’t cover the hospital stay.
You are not making sense in your imaginary scenario.
So you don’t work in healthcare. Tell us more about you.
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