Posted on 01/05/2017 10:57:44 PM PST by Zakeet
The world-renown MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced a workforce reduction by 1,000, the CEO of the center said on Thursday.
The cancer hospital has had $110 million in operating losses from September through November this year, reported the Houston Chronicle.
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The local publication reported that the financial problems began in the spring when the hospital implemented a new electronic medical-record system. Doctors and staff members at the center spent a great deal of time getting up to speed in using the program and that took time away from their patients.
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... yet another good example of why politicians should stay the hell out of healthcare!
That is shameful! That hospital has saved more lives and needs every person it has to make the engine run smoothly for those ciritical patients who rely on their expertise!
Cancer has been cured.
All of these new codes for what conditions a patient has, I thought there was supposed to be MEDICAL PRIVACY (and certainly the courts believe it exists for women who kill their babies) and the damned Obama government is examining every bit of it.
My doctor says that the way it’s headed you may be declined services for not addressing issues of diet, etc when it comes to heart disease.
Just cutting this bloat would cut costs 40%.
I was talking to my physical therapist that runs a small business - his wife does the paperwork. He said he has to have a patient visit at least three times before he breaks even due to all of the initial paperwork!
My girlfriend went there, and she is a 10-year cancer survivor.
Enterprise wide electronic records, billing, and pharmacy are extraordinarily expensive and drain dollars from direct patient care. But that's hardly news. M.D.Anderson should have been able to anticipate for that and adjust accordingly.
Since when isn't a Blood Panel test inc. PSA not standard procedure for a 58 year old man during his annual examination and not be 100 percent covered under the Unaffordable Act? My Insurance had no issue covering it if St. Joseph's could get their act together and get it coded correctly. I even filed a formal dispute, in which case that Dept. completely blew me off by not even responding other than sending another bill.
I just finally just paid the $67, rather than let it go to collections and screw up my credit rating. They were lucky they didn't find terminal cancer during my exam, I'd have gone all Falling Down (Michael Douglass Jr.) on them.
No worries mate. Those doctors from Guadalupe and Haiti do a bang up job, you betcha!
I hope the House and Senate both ask the Administrator and a few of the staff to testify in Congress regarding the punitive effect of O-Care’s ridiculous requirements, which hurt the patients as well as the health care givers.
....didn’t Odungo pick Biden to “lead” the way in the battle with
Cancer this past summer?
My brother, ditto.
A Chinese colleague of his kept flying back to China to look after his father who had cancer. He finally brought his father to the U.S., signed him up for Obamacare, and got his father world-class cancer care at a 90% discount — thanks to the U.S. taxpayer.
No wonder the country’s going broke.
Same here. I went to the local article and found nothing blaming Obamacare.
Look for President Trump to EO it into the garbage can of history.
The electronic records system was mandated by O-Care, which required the use of hundreds of new codes to describe conditions of patients, treatments, Rx, et al, to go into a Fed data base. Without the records, O-Care would not pay.
That’s my understanding, and the reason so many Dr.s retired early.
My guess is they are all the typical adjunct staff: Janitors, cleaning; transportation, etc that are generally given out to local residents to appease the quota system.
Don't forget those fine grads from the Mumbai School of Medicine and Convenience Store Management.
lawyers are to blame for the costs of service increases
Blame Bush for some of this. IIRC, that damn EHR/EMR BS was passed on his watch.
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