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With uncompensated care, low Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and incredibly large overhead costs, emergency departments (EDs) are one of the costliest sectors of a hospital. Likewise, the number of hospital based emergency departments decreased by 27% from 1989 to 2009 according to the American...
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Even before accounting for the mass influx of Americans rushing to hospitals’ emergency departments from healthcare reform, EDs are in serious need of fine tuning as over crowding and escalating inpatient costs are on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, emergency...
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Yup, we can’t get away from it anywhere we go in healthcare, as insurers and everyone else lives and dies by the algorithms of cost. When compared to non profits the number of cancer patients seen by for profits seemed dwarfed when compared. As the article states, Medicare pays $143 a day...
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The AGO prepared one report already and is working on a second report to ensure safety and care for seniors and they were overly concerned over the lack of data and information provided to make a full evaluation. We had one case in California that turned pretty ugly with patients not getting adequate...
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I have seen a lot of press of late so today I decided to take a run at this with some sample searches and compared 3 hospitals, all very different, one owned by Tenet, one recently take over by Memorial Care and one owned by Prime. Not as a patient but otherwise have been inside the doors of all...
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The hospital agreed to the payment without admitting any guilt or wrong doing. The charges were in excess of what is considered normal inpatient fees. There are not additional details here. I am almost betting one could audit almost hospital today and find items as such and perhaps...
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With the new “never-never” provisions of Medicare and insurers now not paying for procedures that entail errors, like leaving an instrument or sponge inside a patient, products such as this one are sure to pick up some momentum, wave the magic wand over the area of the body to see if anything is left...
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