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It appears "self administered" drugs in the hospital are no longer covered under Medicare? If you take, for example, simvastatin and lisinopril at home and are given it in the hospital, Medicare does not cover it and you are billed at some outrageous cost. Anyone seen this or is our hospital ,,,lifepoint, just nuts?
I could be wrong but I don't think the hospital allows self-administered drugs due to liability concerns.
These "self administrated" drugs are those that the nurse brought in in the little container, placed then on the little tray and the patient picked it up and put the little cheap pill in their mouth and swallowed it.
Pills brought to you by the nurse are not self administered. The nurse cannot swallow them for you.
If you would rather the nurse assist, she can treat them like a suppository.
Those are definitely not self administered.