Posted on 03/25/2010 6:42:15 AM PDT by Slyscribe
There are currently 60 to 65 physician-owned hospitals under construction. Those that aren't finished and don't have a Medicare provider number by Aug. 1 (Dec. 31 if the reconciliation bill passes) will probably never open their doors. Without a provider number, such hospitals can't treat Medicare patients, which are usually essential to financial survival.
The feud over physician-owned hospitals has been boiling for many years. The American Hospital Association, along with key lawmakers such as Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., have made numerous efforts to curtail physician-owned hospitals. In 2003, Grassley won a temporary ban on new construction of these hospitals in the Medicare prescription drug bill.
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Will there be American doctor-owned hospitals in Costa Rica?
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Without a provider number, such hospitals can’t treat Medicare patients,
which are usually essential to financial survival.
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Maybe I’m missing some detail...but aren’t some clinics and pharmacies
declining new Medicare patients and/or ending service for Medicare patients?
The two examples I seem to recall are the Mayo Clinic branch in
Arizona ending service to Medicare (Medicare Advantage?) patients,
and Walgreens in Washington State ending service to customers on Medicare.
To the point, a fair number of physicians and drugstores are ending
service to Medicare patient due to the low/modest compensation from
the US guvmint.
I may have mis-remembered some details...posters feel free to point
out errors in my recollection.....
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Don’t blame this IDIOT, which he certainly is. America has had many presidents who proposed IDIOTIC ideas that were torpedoed by a Congress who put the United States of America over and above party.
The revered FDR tried to pack the court and was rebuffed for example.
This “congress” selling their fellow citizens out for a piece of silver is the root of this disaster. They are PROUD to be at the root of this disaster.
The IDIOT is an IDIOT, but he could NOT have done this without lots and lots of accomplices.
A very good alternative is to build hospitals in “enclaves”, just over the border in Mexico. Somewhat like a “duty free zone”, such hospitals would be in a fenced hospital district, not open to the general public.
Built by US developers, to US standards, but in the legal environment of Mexico. They accept cash only, no insurance or government payments, but at much lower cost. Mexico has a very large number of English speaking care workers, but most physicians and surgeons would be Americans.
Of course, the emphasis would be on the more expensive procedures and services offered in the US. Things like long term and hospice care, expensive and elective surgeries and pharmaceuticals, and services denied by Obamacare.
1965 x1000
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This is gonna be fun!
We’ll be back to overly-medicated Medicine Men shaking a chicken bone over our heads and bleeding via leeches before 2012, LOL!
*SMIRK*
(Note to self: Save all chicken bones and start raising leeches...cash in!)
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