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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (25068)	11/28/2012 11:31:21 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Effective October 2012, doctors at hospitals across the land are being forced by the Obama administration to break their Hippocratic Oath. I understand the point but I think the expression is overwrought and misplaced. If a patient needs to be admitted, it's the doctor's duty to admit the patient. Period. There may be consequences for doing so but Medicare is not prohibiting admittance. Yes, it's a technical differentiation but it's an important one. When the government prohibits treatment, then you can legitimately claim "death panel," not before.

To: longnshort who wrote (25068)	11/28/2012 11:53:32 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

"So if you’re in the hospital for pneumonia, and 3 weeks later, you break your leg…….too bad. Medicare will not pay the hospital to fix your leg." Reducing Readmissions under ACA Under Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), as included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there will be adjustments to payments made for excessive readmissions in acute care hospitals during fiscal years beginning on or after October 1, 2012. A readmission is defined as: being admitted at the same or different hospital within a period prescribed by the Secretary (generally 30 days) for certain applicable conditions. The Secretary is to target certain areas of excessive hospital readmission. The list is to be developed in conjunction with the National Quality Forum. Measures must have appropriate exclusions for readmissions that are unrelated to the prior discharge (such as planned admissions or transfers to another hospital). medicareadvocacy.org