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Originally Posted by Lamplighter
Primarily just being facetious...
There are comments in the article about Medicare patients not being served,
and the coming standards for reimbursements, and physicians' practice
of accepting only private-pay (or private insurance) patients.
I do think that unless something is done to ultimately require physicians and hospitals
to accept Medicare reimbursements, this direction of seeking the wealthy patients
will only increase, so more and more patients will be turned away.
The smaller hospitals will probably see this as their way to go,
and so those ER's will only stabilize the patients and transport them
to larger "teaching" and "county" facilities that do accept Medicare.
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All of that has happened and is increasing. More people do not see Medicare anymore. The rural hospitals are passing on the sicker patients because they cost to much and sending them on to the larger hospitals further delaying much needed critical care. It has nothing to do with the capability of the hospital or the skills of the staff, it is now and always be about money. Medicine is a business, like it or not.