Hospitals: The cost of admission

Steve Kroft investigates allegations from doctors that the hospital chain they worked for pressured them to admit patients regardless of their medical needs.

[@hazuk.isonohara2039]

"I've never seen those documents before." Liar.

[@SweetT77777]

As an RN who has worked in utilization review and case management, among other things, I can for sure state that hospital was in violation of Medicare fraud and will have to pay back all of the overpayment they received as well as possibly be on a list to where they cannot bill/treat any Medicare or medicaid patients. Happened to a surgery center in a hospital close to the one I worked at.

[@conanthedestroyer7123]

I wish hospitals were like car garages. You go to the hospital and they tell you the cost of diagnosis before doing anything. You accept it or not. If you decide to go through with the diagnosis you get the diagnosis and afterwards you get a root cause of your problem. Then you get a cost for any procedure to fix the root cause before done so you can decide if you want it done or not. I wish the cost would be up front before any action done. Face it, doctors, administrators, nurses, technicians all are providing a service, and that service cost can be given up front.

[@chieftp]

but after they get into the surgery, it might be more difficult than they thought.

[@kylebullard4780]

I use a medical supply company and I know for a fact that they bill my insurance company for thing they said I got but I didn't so I let my insurance company know they got took and they honestly didn't seem to care...

[@glbcpa]

Basically revenues can be generated in one of two ways, volume or rate, volume being the number of admissions, as clearly illustrated in this report, or outrageously inflated fees for everything from Kleenex to a heart-lung bypass. Each facility uses either admissions or the mysterious "chargemaster" rates to bolster revenue ... and each are as fraudulent as the day is long.

[@lora1170]

Check out Mikki Jeans's letter of resignation from Ballad Health, sent directly to Levine

[@stevenherrold5955]

take the profit out of health care

[@cindyboucher4524]

You realize that you want Socialized medicine???

[@codymoreland4496]

@@cindyboucher4524 yes I would like a hybrid system. Doesnt matter though that would just get corrupted as well

[@MBarberfan4life]

Lots of nonprofit hospitals that are running a racket.

[@lastnoondate4272]

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[@marksummers5504]

‘Ah Steve I oh ah uh um I haven’t seen that document before. I uh don’t uh I know uh Steve where uh I uh it came from Steve. That’s uh I oh not one of uh ours Steve.” I worked for that horrible corporation. Gary Newsome fled to Uruguay on a fake Mormon “mission.” The US has no extradition treaty with Uruguay. Imagine that!

[@fizzygoatboy]

obamacare or note i don't think is the core root of the problem. the problem being is we have turned the health industry into a big business and in business the overall goal to make money and health care/ meda care (the way we have it structured) it allows large health care company's to shake down the system all the way to small town docs can do it.

[@jaycrib]

Agreed just got bilked for 3000 as my catwas very sick. Never found the cause. She died 2 weeks later

[@mattdathew2794]

crap, i didn't know cats were that expensive

[@Teresahorner]

Dirty allan levine has came n ruined ours

[@Timbrock1000]

HMA:. "They are all lying. We're good and honest as the wind-driven snow!".

[@mistylara1401]

why is it legal for hospital to nill mr for involuntary stay, they kept me as imvoluntary for 8 days. now i have that debt on me, i need that money to pay for the Eylea treatments saving me from blindness macular degeneration

[@zelenplav1701]

There is no care. It's a money making business.

[@zelenplav1701]

The nurses can't talk about it.

[@chieftp]

who owns the hospitals?

[@ThePresentation010]

Rothchild owns them all. The oil thing was limited and they know, because thatbresource can run out. So they got a monopoly on healthcare.

[@MBarberfan4life]

Monopolies

[@dionnefrancis-brown1533]

Making money off sick people it’s wrong. They can do this so that they can slap the patient with a huge bill.

[@amps2amps]

This only going to get worse if Obamacare goes through!

[@KevinCoan]

yeah, were you able to pull your head out yet?

[@brendaburnsskelton2884]

So you're alright with others dying but as long as it's not you?

[@benbradley4727]

No... it's about making it a big business. It should be modeled after Canada. Socialism? Learn what it is.

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[@kylebullard4780]

I use a medical supply company and I know for a fact that they bill my insurance company for thing they said I got but I didn't so I let my insurance company know they got took and they honestly didn't seem to care...