Posted on 02/09/2020 2:27:05 AM PST by gattaca
1st Medicare writes rules about how long they can keep people in the hospital, that hurries the handling of patients. Then they penalize for re-admissions.
Yes. Bureaucrap.
Rules are rules, even when they don’t make sense. The bean counters who wrote the rules don’t have a clue about medicine.
(my humble opinion)
Absolutely true.
Wow, interesting, didn’t know about this data source; looking up the data on my area hospitals, it was interesting to see how ‘the worst local hospital’ stacked up better vs every other area hospital.
Only in the democRAT Obambi world is re-admitting someone to a hospital considered bad. We have John McCain to thank for this Crap continuing to be part of our lives.
Don’t forget John Roberts.
There is no link to the Kaiser report in the article. Would live to see who is on it.
Readmissions even for non-compliance on the part of the patient is not reimbursed.
Thanks
The purpose of Obamacare was not to fix anything or improve patient care; it was to destroy the system so that it could be rebuilt to exact the maximum benefit to the state.
I did not know that. Thanks
I wonder if they will pass on the expenses to the consumer...
Disinfecting many of the hospitals and personnel might help. They aren’t what they used to be.
What is worse the readmission penalty is for all readmissions, not narrowed to those associated with the initial admission. If I have you in the hospital for influenza and 3 weeks later you break a hip or have a heart attack and get readmitted, that goes against the hospital. Just how can we control that?
If the patients die in the hospital they would not come back for re-admission.
Be scared be very SCARED
“Rules are rules, even when they don’t make sense. The bean counters who wrote the rules don’t have a clue about medicine.”
A friend’s elderly mother had a hip replacement, the hospital wanted to send her home after one night?
The physician wrote ‘possible sign of infection’ and that gave her a second night.
And she did just fine.
Hubby was in one of our local hospitals for a procedure. Daughter and I were in the surgery waiting room for about 2 hours. While we sat there we watched an attendant of some sort come in about every 10 minutes and wipe down any empty seats, tables, etc. with a disinfectant. They were ‘on it’!
As an EMT I transport many non-compliant patients with chronic conditions (COPD, Type 2 Diabetes, CHF, psych) who arrive at the ED wearing hospital bands from their previous admission for the same complaint. It goes like this - "Sure, it possible a miraculous cure was unveiled overnight, but its not likely." Thus an otherwise great teaching hospital gets hosed, along with taxpayers.
just want are you implying? That I would allow a patient to die simply to avoid a readmission? I really hope you arent
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