My daughter is a trama certified registered nurse who currently will not take a job in the health care industry because of the outright waste, fraud, and abuse permeating the system. We have talked about this for countless hours and have concluded that either the government completely fails to understand the marketplace it has involved itself in or is willfully trying to destroy that marketplace.
No one can keep up with the rules and regulations, even the CMMS. The advice of the regulators is more likely to result in a fine than not, according to the Center, itself!
I for one, have just given up and work for other people. I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even question the arbitrary rules, anymore.
Between the stories of restricted defibrillators and asthma medications, there’s these statistics:
“” From 1999 to 2007, Medicare denied access in a third of the treatments it evaluated through its coverage process, taking an average of eight months to complete its reviews. When coverage was granted, in 85% of cases the treatments were restricted, usually to patients with more advanced illnesses.
“”Medicare is lately increasing its use of the national coverage process and is becoming more tightfisted. Since 2008, according to my review of Medicare data, it conditioned access in 29% of its reviews and denied new or expanded coverage in fully 53% of cases.””