Reducing Mistakes Would Cost Hospitals Money

[Crabcake Johnny]

I found this article to be highly interesting. It's stated in the article that no one is suggesting this is malicious, but merely an effect of a poorly configured health care payment system:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/h...ors-study-finds.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y&_r=0

 

[xrac]

I found this article to be highly interesting. It's stated in the article that no one is suggesting this is malicious, but merely an effect of a poorly configured health care payment system:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/h...ors-study-finds.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y&_r=0

What is hilarious in the medical profession is most of the time when the doctor or hospital makes mistakes, except for the really grievious ones, they still get paid for it. The doctor makes a wrong diagnosis and prescribes the wrong treatment or medication that accomplishes nothing and everybody gets paid as long as the patient isn't killed or grieviously injured. My wife's doctor diagnosed my wife with a torn rotator cuff. When he went it he found it attached. He either misread the x-ray or the rotator had reattached which rarely happens. Either way he still got paid.

 

[ABC]

A lot of the National PPO contracts address these type of issues.

The hospitals have had huge problem with not getting paid when they make a mistake.

It really tells you a lot about how often these mistakes happen.