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Feds withhold Medicare payments to Wisconsin Hospital

Postby iMURDAu » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:02 pm

When you turn a blind eye to child abuse there's no reason taxpayers should reimburse you.

Hospital administrators didn't respond to a report of a baby in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit having an injury that nobody could account for in 2017. There were reports from doctors and nurses from February of last year until January of this year regarding things from unusual bruising all the way to *ahem* fucking skull fractures to these already at risk infants. There were still no policies or procedures on how hospital employees should report abuse to patients as of February 18th, 2018. The U.S. federal agency that controls medicare payments decided that not having a plan in place put every patient at risk and is not going to reimburse the hospital beginning in May of this year. There is a clause in the agreement that states "A hospital must protect and promote each patient's rights".

The hospital has time to get into compliance but it is unknown how many other issues it will have to correct as it was reported other issues that would have kept them from being in compliance were discovered after the abuse investigation began.

What the hell is going on with that place? How do you not plan for bad apples? You're employing thousands of people, you can't just hope one or two won't go and hurt patients over the length of time the hospital exists for.
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Re: Feds withhold Medicare payments to Wisconsin Hospital

Postby IamNotCreepy » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:53 pm

If Medicare withholds reimbursement to the hospital, does that mean that the hospital will then just turn around and try to collect from the patients?

Because that would be horrible.
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Re: Feds withhold Medicare payments to Wisconsin Hospital

Postby iMURDAu » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:55 pm

I don't think they can do that. The agreement isn't exactly the same as with private insurance where if the insurer won't pay for something then you're on the hook. It's contingent on complying with Medicare/Medicaid policies. Otherwise there'd be no incentive to comply with government policies if you could just bill individuals when the feds won't pay.
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