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People would get sick
and then leave the hospital but then moments later they would come back sick
again right away. These cost were not
cheap and quickly added up for the hospital.
There were penalties that were involved for situations
like this since cost were being paid through Medicare so the penalties kicked
in late last year, and those little 1% slices add up fast. "If a hospital
gets $300 million a year in Medicare payments, that's $3 million," says
Sandeep Pulim, a co-founder and chief medical officer of Health Recovery Solutions,
a startup that aims to help hospitals cut their readmissions. Hospitals began to educate their patients so
that they would not have to come to the hospital as often and so that the
patient can be smarter about their health.
They would have little clips and at the end of each session they would
quiz them to make sure they know what was going on. This will help reduce cost
for the hospital and save money for more important things other than for
somebody getting sick from the flu and coming back every time for that.
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ReplyDeleteEducating people on how to control their health is certainly crucial in saving on outrageous medical bills. I think this type of health education is necessary and should be adopted by all the hospitals. Innovations like tablet could be very useful in monitoring patient''s health. After reading an article I did encounter something strange. The cuts in Medicare will be put on hospitals that admit patients with heart problems within thirty days. I think that heart conditions are very serious and therefore discouraging hospitals from admitting hospitals can have a very serious negative outcomes.
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