Sunday, December 31, 2017

Medicare Will Not Pay For Hospital Mistakes And Infections, New Rule-Whistleblowers Needed

Medicare Will Not Pay For Hospital Mistakes And Infections, New Rule:
Starting in 2009, Medicare, the US government's health insurance program for elderly and disabled Americans, will not cover the costs of "preventable" conditions, mistakes and infections resulting from a hospital stay. 
So for instance, if you are on Medicare and you pick up a hospital acquired infection while you are being treated for something that is covered by Medicare, the extra cost of treating the hospital acquired infection will no longer be paid for by Medicare. Instead, the bill will be picked up by the hospital itself since the rules don't allow the hospital to charge it to you. 

 Is this the reason the Stats on Hospital acquired infections seems to be so low? Is this the reason patients are being left to die without treatment of Sepsis and other Hospital acquired infections, because the Hospitals don't want to lose Medicare money? Because they're afraid Medicare will find out the REAL numbers? Is there a special code Hospitals are supposed to use for Sepsis when billing Medicare? Are they using  fake codes? How are they getting away with NOT reporting Sepsis, etc. to Medicare? Family members need to step up and contact Medicare when your loved ones contract Sepsis and when they die of Sepsis, because Medicare doesn't have a clue unless you tell them!

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