Re: Medicare Says It Won't Cover Hospital Errors
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Sun Aug 19 15:13:15 2007
During this last AMA House of Delegates, the feckless AMA would not even
adopt a resolution to "Take Back the Profession." Ugh ...
Art
At Sun, 19 Aug 2007, FRANCES WREN wrote:
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>..????what will happen then.
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>t is it really?
>or maybe another method to get out of paying for treatments...
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>next thing is extra costs for those who are overweight...
>for those with type 2 diabetes
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>lung ca due to smoking etc etc....
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>and insurers will follow hot suit....
>frances wren MD FRCS
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>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dean Huffman ." <dean@thehuffpeople.net>
>Date: Sunday, August 19, 2007 11:47 am
>Subject: Medicare Says It Won't Cover Hospital Errors
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>> By ROBERT PEAR [New York Times]
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>> Published: August 19, 2007
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>> extra costs of treating
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>> hospitals, a move
>> they say could save lives and millions of dollars.
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>> said could multiply
>> the savings and benefits for patients.
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>> not pay hospitals
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>> reasonably have been
>> prevented."
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>> pressure ulcers;
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>> prolonged use of
>> catheters in blood vessels or the bladder.
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>> object in a patient during
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>> want them to leave
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>> administrator of the
>> Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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>> care purchased by
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>> sending ripples
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>> doctors hew
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>> tests to assess
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>> costs of these extra
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>> patients develop
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>> patients with
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>> relatively common.
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>> efforts to
>> reduce infection rates in intensive care units.
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>> Plans, a trade
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>> Medicare is
>> doing, with an eye to adopting similar policies."
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>> executives endorsed the
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>> to collect
>> large amounts of data they did not now have.
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>> hailed the
>> rules.
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>> preventable hospital
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>> "Medicare is
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>> forcing hospitals
>> to face this problem in a way they never have before."
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>> hospitals for the
> start.
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>> that federal and
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>> because hospital
>> infections hurt patients and cost money."
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>> Medicare $20 million
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>> greater.
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>> Association, agreed
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>> of incompatible
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>> left objects in
>> patients during surgery.
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>> Medicare officials were
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>> June, the American
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>> the end of
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>> despitereceiving appropriate care."
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>> whether a
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>> the hospital.
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>> more laboratory
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>> infections at
>> the time of admission.
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>> Hospital in
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>> testing by
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>> the time of
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>> said, "Serious,
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>> all the
>> recommended precautions."
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>> out a directive
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>> May, consumer
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>> patients for costs
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>> for any charges
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>> rules say.
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>> showed the need for
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>> an infection
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>> in 2004.
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>> patient died,"
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>> to control the
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>> week after the
>> operation."
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>> reported recently in The New
>ew
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>> infection-control
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>> with sterile
>> gowns and sheets while the catheters were inserted.
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>> and $246 million
>> by reducing infection rates in intensive care units since 2004.
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>> the new policy,
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>> life-threatening
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>> future, Medicare
>> officials said.
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>> top health
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>> 1999, said: "I
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>> hospitals will
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>> part of a larger
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>> everyone agrees
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>> make sure
>> hospitals comply."
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>system...????what will happen then.</DIV>
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>..but is it really?</DIV>
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><DIV> </DIV>
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><DIV>for those with type 2 diabetes</DIV>
>ds....</DIV>
><DIV>lung ca due to smoking etc etc....</DIV>
><DIV> </DIV>
><DIV>and insurers will follow hot suit....</DIV>
><DIV>frances wren MD FRCS</DIV>
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art fougner, md
"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
