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Hospital Fines For Re-Admits

Mike

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Here's a phenomenon that appears to look a lot like a "Death Panel". What if a patient is readmitted within 30 days and is truly sick?


WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you or an elderly relative have been hospitalized recently and noticed extra attention when the time came to be discharged, there's more to it than good customer service.

As of Monday, Medicare will start fining hospitals that have too many patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge due to complications. The penalties are part of a broader push under President Barack Obama's health care law to improve quality while also trying to save taxpayers money.

About two-thirds of the hospitals serving Medicare patients, or some 2,200 facilities, will be hit with penalties averaging around $125,000 per facility this coming year, according to government estimates.
 

Faster horses

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Mike said:
Here's a phenomenon that appears to look a lot like a "Death Panel". What if a patient is readmitted within 30 days and is truly sick?


WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you or an elderly relative have been hospitalized recently and noticed extra attention when the time came to be discharged, there's more to it than good customer service.

As of Monday, Medicare will start fining hospitals that have too many patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge due to complications. The penalties are part of a broader push under President Barack Obama's health care law to improve quality while also trying to save taxpayers money.

About two-thirds of the hospitals serving Medicare patients, or some 2,200 facilities, will be hit with penalties averaging around $125,000 per facility this coming year, according to government estimates.

Trying to save Taxpayers money????? Who is Obama kidding????

Our neighbor has had a lot of problems these past couple of years and
had to have surgery twice in Billings. Both times he has had to be re-admitted because of something going wrong from the surgery. So now what will happen in a case like that?

Death panel is basically what they have proposed. Did you ever think you wouild see the day this is happening. Not me. I never did. :cry: [/b]
 
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