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Under provisions of obamacare, if you get discharged from the hospital and have a complication, you won't get seen in an emergency room.
More than 2,200 hospitals face penalties under ObamaCare rules | Fox News
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?"
obama's answer, he'd rather have a death.
Under provisions of obamacare, if you get discharged from the hospital and have a complication, you won't get seen in an emergency room.
More than 2,200 hospitals face penalties under ObamaCare rules | Fox News
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?"
obama's answer, he'd rather have a death.
Under provisions of obamacare, if you get discharged from the hospital and have a complication, you won't get seen in an emergency room.
More than 2,200 hospitals face penalties under ObamaCare rules | Fox News
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?"
obama's answer, he'd rather have a death.
Here's a novel idea, keep the patients until they are well.
here is a novel idea...... if you cant pay for your hospital visit...don't complain about what you get for free....and or demand ....more.
I have been hearing many stories of Doctors
refusing to take on new Medicare patients because Obamacare
really cuts reimbursements.
Physician payments under Medicare are set by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, not Obamacare.
Killing off elderly patients is how Obamacare will reduces costs.
That's what happens when you let Eugenicists who talk about "untermenschen" run the US healthcare system
Killing off elderly patients is how Obamacare will reduces costs.
That's what happens when you let Eugenicists who talk about "untermenschen" run the US healthcare system
I think we already have that. Many of the elderly are encouraged to forgo chemo and radiation therapy. And we have the nerve to criticize Canada's healthcare system.
Killing off elderly patients is how Obamacare will reduces costs.
That's what happens when you let Eugenicists who talk about "untermenschen" run the US healthcare system
I think we already have that. Many of the elderly are encouraged to forgo chemo and radiation therapy. And we have the nerve to criticize Canada's healthcare system.
You don't think people arent going to die because of this?
The intention of the law is for less people to die.
Killing off elderly patients is how Obamacare will reduces costs.
That's what happens when you let Eugenicists who talk about "untermenschen" run the US healthcare system
I think we already have that. Many of the elderly are encouraged to forgo chemo and radiation therapy. And we have the nerve to criticize Canada's healthcare system.
This topic never ceases to amaze me. Faux news babbles something about ACA dropping hospitals that care more for the dollar than they do for your health, and you right wingnuts come out in droves.
My mother died of breast cancer that was caught early enough that she could have been wearing a pink ribbon on a flat chest today. She died in a hospital right after she elected to stop treatment due to the COST OF TREATMENT AND HER LACK OF INSURANCE OR PERSONAL ASSETS. Pre-Obamacare = voluntary eugenics.
Don't let facts get in the way of your stupidly myopic view. And whatever you do, don't actually try to understand what the wingnut news tells you - and that goes for both sides. I'd post links to the actual text of ACA, but apparently you'd rather have Hannity eat it first so you don't have to chew.
I think we already have that. Many of the elderly are encouraged to forgo chemo and radiation therapy. And we have the nerve to criticize Canada's healthcare system.
This topic never ceases to amaze me. Faux news babbles something about ACA dropping hospitals that care more for the dollar than they do for your health, and you right wingnuts come out in droves.
My mother died of breast cancer that was caught early enough that she could have been wearing a pink ribbon on a flat chest today. She died in a hospital right after she elected to stop treatment due to the COST OF TREATMENT AND HER LACK OF INSURANCE OR PERSONAL ASSETS. Pre-Obamacare = voluntary eugenics.
Don't let facts get in the way of your stupidly myopic view. And whatever you do, don't actually try to understand what the wingnut news tells you - and that goes for both sides. I'd post links to the actual text of ACA, but apparently you'd rather have Hannity eat it first so you don't have to chew.
Dying from lack of treatment is somehow worse than dying because the hospital won't admit you.
My son's sister in law had breast cancer. By the time they found it it had spread. They had to crack open her ribs to get it. The surgery was at City of Hope with follow up treatment at the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars Sinai Hospital. She has since had reconstructive surgery and is doing fine. But then she went to charity hospitals. No out of pocket. Which is a good thing because she has five kids and is penniless.
obamacare supercedes all prior acts.
Many of the hospitals being penalized say they have already launched efforts to reduce their readmissions.
In Western Pennsylvania, an official at UPMCs McKeesport hospital told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that it has begun placing nurse practitioners in nursing homes where many of its elderly patients are discharged. Readmissions have dropped by 40 percent since the effort began 18 months ago, but Medicares penalty of 0.68 percent is based on its readmission rates for the three years ending in June 2011, so any improvements werent factored in to the penalty calculation.
In Southwest Florida, Lee Memorial Health System told the News-Press that it used electronic monitoring to keep taps on its sicker patients who had returned home. Patients also receive follow-up calls from staffers and even physician house calls to avoid them returning to the hospital. The hospital will receive a 0.11 percent penalty.
I think we already have that. Many of the elderly are encouraged to forgo chemo and radiation therapy. And we have the nerve to criticize Canada's healthcare system.
This topic never ceases to amaze me. Faux news babbles something about ACA dropping hospitals that care more for the dollar than they do for your health, and you right wingnuts come out in droves.
My mother died of breast cancer that was caught early enough that she could have been wearing a pink ribbon on a flat chest today. She died in a hospital right after she elected to stop treatment due to the COST OF TREATMENT AND HER LACK OF INSURANCE OR PERSONAL ASSETS. Pre-Obamacare = voluntary eugenics.
Don't let facts get in the way of your stupidly myopic view. And whatever you do, don't actually try to understand what the wingnut news tells you - and that goes for both sides. I'd post links to the actual text of ACA, but apparently you'd rather have Hannity eat it first so you don't have to chew.
Dying from lack of treatment is somehow worse than dying because the hospital won't admit you.
My son's sister in law had breast cancer. By the time they found it it had spread. They had to crack open her ribs to get it. The surgery was at City of Hope with follow up treatment at the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars Sinai Hospital. She has since had reconstructive surgery and is doing fine. But then she went to charity hospitals. No out of pocket. Which is a good thing because she has five kids and is penniless.
Under provisions of obamacare, if you get discharged from the hospital and have a complication, you won't get seen in an emergency room.
More than 2,200 hospitals face penalties under ObamaCare rules | Fox News
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?"
obama's answer, he'd rather have a death.
Here's a novel idea, keep the patients until they are well.
