healthmyths
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You would think Congress would learn!
In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences)
are outcomes that are not the ones intended by a purposeful action. A perverse effect contrary to what was originally intended (when an intended solution makes a problem worse)
1986 EMTALA...Enacted by the federal government in 1986, requires that hospital emergency departments treat emergency conditions of all patients regardless of their ability to pay and is considered a critical element in the "safety net" for the uninsured, but established no direct payment mechanism for such care. Indirect payments and reimbursements through federal and state government programs have never fully compensated public and private hospitals for the full cost of care mandated by EMTALA. Health care in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Consequences? ACA!
As the death spiral of more hospitals that did as the hospital CEO said when asked how hospitals recover these "uninsured" costs?
"How do hospitals deal with the cost of the uninsured? Like any business, we pass it on to the paying customers.
PASS IT ON to paying customers, i.e. insurance companies/Medicare!
Proof of his statement???
Florida Hospital Tampa 3100 East Fletcher Avenue Tampa, FL 33613
In 2011 Hospital in Tampa sent Medicare 1,362 claims for CAT scan no contrast.
Each claim averaged $3,463, i.e. what the hospital billed Medicare...
The hospital's ACTUAL COSTS to perform the CAT SCAN was $57 a mark up 5,975.44%
Consequently the billing of Medicare because of EMTALA of 6,000% over costs makes up their uncompensated expenses!
HOW STUPID!~
It became a increasing cost i.e. seeing the uninsured and so the hospitals bill Medicare/insurance companies which in turn increase premiums which
in turn reduce the number of insured!
HOW DUMB and now because the MAJORITY of people trying to do a "NICE" thing by covering the "46 million uninsured".. ARE CAUSING MILLIONS more to lose their coverage!
In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences)
are outcomes that are not the ones intended by a purposeful action. A perverse effect contrary to what was originally intended (when an intended solution makes a problem worse)
1986 EMTALA...Enacted by the federal government in 1986, requires that hospital emergency departments treat emergency conditions of all patients regardless of their ability to pay and is considered a critical element in the "safety net" for the uninsured, but established no direct payment mechanism for such care. Indirect payments and reimbursements through federal and state government programs have never fully compensated public and private hospitals for the full cost of care mandated by EMTALA. Health care in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Consequences? ACA!
As the death spiral of more hospitals that did as the hospital CEO said when asked how hospitals recover these "uninsured" costs?
"How do hospitals deal with the cost of the uninsured? Like any business, we pass it on to the paying customers.
PASS IT ON to paying customers, i.e. insurance companies/Medicare!
Proof of his statement???
Florida Hospital Tampa 3100 East Fletcher Avenue Tampa, FL 33613
In 2011 Hospital in Tampa sent Medicare 1,362 claims for CAT scan no contrast.
Each claim averaged $3,463, i.e. what the hospital billed Medicare...
The hospital's ACTUAL COSTS to perform the CAT SCAN was $57 a mark up 5,975.44%
Consequently the billing of Medicare because of EMTALA of 6,000% over costs makes up their uncompensated expenses!
HOW STUPID!~
It became a increasing cost i.e. seeing the uninsured and so the hospitals bill Medicare/insurance companies which in turn increase premiums which
in turn reduce the number of insured!
HOW DUMB and now because the MAJORITY of people trying to do a "NICE" thing by covering the "46 million uninsured".. ARE CAUSING MILLIONS more to lose their coverage!
