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 think everyone has figured out Obama's answer to that question by now.
It’s BO’s cost-cutting plan. The hospitals won’t readmit you if you’ve exceeded your quota of admissions, so you will die at home. This statistic won’t besmirch the hospital’s mortality total...also being monitored by ObamaCare...and ObamaCare can save the money that would have been spent on you had you been readmitted.
It will be interesting to see how ObamaCare will affect life spans in the USA, but you can bet government officials will still live to be 90+.
"A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours, and recovery is when Obama loses his."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF3ChLR4SsI
Your right. obamacare’s cost savings comes from not treating patients.
These people are heartless and soulless feral humans.
But like you said, the rulers will get the best of care.
And the pieces of S#$% in the media and RAt party attacked Palin for telling the truth?
F them - all of them.
Sarah was THE ONLY ONE who spoke the truth in 2008 about obama palling around w terrorists and was the only one telling the truth about the death panels.
FUBO you rotten thug!
This hyperventilation from the right over an actual cost inefficiency issue in Medicare doesn’t speak well for us.
Killing heart patients to promote "cost efficiency" doesn't sound like a good trade off to me. But that's just me.
Why do I suspect that any institution or MD providing care will be penalized!!!
The banksters, after all , expect that money in Medicare to wind up in their pockets!!!
And it is so damned obvious how hospitals are going to react to this.
They will each hire a Michelle Obama for the purpose of encouraging patients to go to some other hospital if it has been less than 30 days since their last stay. They will probably even work out deals with other hospitals to “trade” patients to keep them all over the 30 day limit.
Gubbermint types never ever ever ever learn that there’s more than one way to skin a cat.
Don’t you worry. Hyperventilating will be disallowed under cost/benefit reviews by a 15 member panel.
Of course when it’s you or your family members who happen to be one of those inconvenient “cost inefficiencies” please come back and tell us it was worth it...
And there are not better ways to do that then penalizing hospitals and sending the money to the govt and the thugs and criminals like obama and holder and sebllius?
Present these facts to any sheeperal democRat, and all you’ll get is
“I won’t believe it - 0bamacare means that all healthcare will be free and available on demand. That’s all I’ll believe.”
So it’s a good idea to readmit a patient 6 times in 6 weeks for end-stage COPD? Sure. If you’re a hospital bilking the system and no doctor wants to be bothered to actually tell the patient that they’re dying.
Telling a patient that they’re dying and treating them appropriately isn’t killing them.
So it’s a good idea to readmit a patient 6 times in 6 weeks for end-stage COPD? Sure. If you’re a hospital bilking the system and no doctor wants to be bothered to actually tell the patient that they’re dying.
Telling a patient that they’re dying and treating them appropriately isn’t killing them.
Yes, there are better ways. But pretending that this isn’t an actual issue is simple denial.
Nah, just let them die. What do their doctors know? Who needs those obnoxious heart patients around anyway, right?
COPD is a respiratory condition.
I’ll give the rest of your response its due.
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Hospitals can mitigate the readmission problem by keeping the patients in the hospital longer, BUT that puts them and the doctors at risk for being economically inefficient....longer stays are result in demerits which reduce Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement fees.
Why do I feel that Washington is being run by lily white administrators and college professors who brought the cities of Detroit and East Saint Louis to their present condition?
This could be an unintentional side effect. What happens if the hospital refuses to admit a patient to avoid this? Do they get sued? Or they just limit how many medicare patients they have in the first place.
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