Posted on 04/26/2020 8:39:18 AM PDT by PilotDave
It seemed to be the smart thing to do, early in the pandemic. If infected people didn’t seek treatment, because of the costs, it’s likely there would be more cases. The insurance companies had to decide whether to pay a lot for a few, or pay a bit less for a lot more.
I can’t believe we’ve been brought to this whole situation over this whole situation.
Plenty of Mayo. Not enough dough.
“I can’t believe we’ve been brought....”
And that’s the one part you can most assuredly believe.
rwood
Ha-yes.
Was she an ICU nurse? Because in our hospital those were pulling $100k a year easy. They cannot get enough of them.
Not ICU, she was in the department where women go to have babies (obstetrics), and the doctors wanted their patient assigned to her for nursing duties. This was back in the late 1970’s through late 1980’s.
My main point in previous post was to agree with the poster who said a nurse does not need a BS degree to do the work. RN’s and LPN’s all can do the same work. LPN’s are at the bottom of pay scale, doing essentially same job. My wife was only a LPN having arrived from Sweden with less English, but she was the most preferred by the doctors because of her work ethic, with the result she was carrying heavier work load. Probably got assigned to difficult cases. I used to pick her up from hospital and she was always a few minutes late getting out, and many times her uniform was splattered with blood from patients and she was dead tired.
The number 1 employer at Mayo Rochester is bill collection.
There are multiple buildings that all they do is shake down people who got ‘authorized’ to go to Mayo.
I had friends who were ‘authorized’, insurance refused to pay after procedure.
They were all set to retire and Mayo crushed those plans.
The dirty secret is much of running the Rochester Mayo operation comes from Saudi $$$.
There are several buildings all setup for treating Saudi family not accessible to Americans.
Rochester is not a big town but you can tell which buildings are for the Saudi and which are for Americans.
I have a friend in Portland who really needs someone to give her a checkup.
Something seems wrong.
She is rightly scared if she went in, she would be sicker coming out.
Hopefully things are better now.
Yep!
Saudi family funds Rochester Mayo.
The Mayo is one of the largest non-profit medical co-oped facilities in the world. They have offices and partners in numerous countries.
Mayo Clinic is regularly acknowledged among the very best in the nation in the following specialties: Cancer. Cardiology and heart surgery. Diabetes and endocrinology. They will even give discounted prices to qualified uninsured patients for medically necessary care.
The application fee at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (Alix) is $120. Its tuition is full-time: $55,500. The faculty-student ratio at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (Alix) is 2.7:1. The medical school has 834 full-time faculty on staff. Cheap for a major medical facility.
But they are feeling the hit just like everyone else as the thread indicates. And with their size and locations, their budget is being clobbered. I couldn’t find any information on their world wide facilities.
rwood
Re: Which number.
The “60% elective procedures” number.
Hard to believe that 60% of Mayo’s patients are having breast enhancements, hernia repairs, or achy knee surgery.
It’s not that people don’t want to risk getting an elective surgery. They cannot get an elective surgery because that has been shut down.
A good friend of mine that is an RN hasn’t worked since March 17th. She works on a floor that deals with post op for people with knee replacements and similar elective things.
Those procedures stopped with the shutdown. Her hospital is losing untold millions. They’ve had two Wuhan flu patients in that time. Neither went to the ICU. Both have recovered. Our county has had 16 infections identified in 6 weeks. This is madness!
If you really needed a knee replacement, I doubt you would call it ‘achy knee’ surgery.
Hernia repairs are no joke either. I hope you never get one.
Breast enhancements are not their thing. Geesh!
Are you 12 years old?
The elective procedures include a wider variety then that. Just a comprehensive physical evaluation or sleep study is extremely expensive. But regardless of the category, their income is actually pretty reduced in this fiasco not to mention losses on their portfolio.
the consequences of this totally unreasonable “solutions” to covid will be exponential as we allow the rats and pandemics to push the lockdown....
try it some day....
ER’s are screening patients and not allowing people in except for strong health reasons....you’re not going to be seen if you come in on a Saturday for that terrible horrible pain in your knee that you’ve had for two yrs now....
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