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from:msnbc.comShares of four home health care providers tumbled Thursday after the Senate Finance Committee raised questions about whether the companies have increased their number of patient visits out of medical necessity or in order to deliberately trigger higher Medicare reimbursements.
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Here is the real issue. I have no idea if these people are scamming Medicare or not. But I know what we are dealing with in the hospital. I have a patient with an infection. The patient needs IV antibiotics once a day. I can discharge the patient home and have a nurse come in every day to give this medication at a reduced cost or he can stay in the hospital for 6 weeks just to get one does of antibiotic every 24 hours. Now tell me what makes sense? The government is of course worried about fraud as they should be. But those of us on the user end need these services for out patients. Some of these patients cannot get to the hospital to have the drug as an outpatient. It makes more sense for them to have it in their home. In addition, it reduces their chance of an infection. They are not exposed to everyone elses germs.
Home health services are vital to us if we are going to be able to discharge a patient from the hospital.