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With so many things in the news thisweek, and many of them worth writing about, I felt it necessary toput Friday tidbits on a Saturday this time. I hope you think this isworth your time as much as I enjoyed reading and writing about thesetopics.
The first item is about using oxygen toregenerate bone. This could be very important for our soldiers, andthen for others like those with diabetes having healing andamputation problems. The results of the Department of Defense-fundedstudy were presented at the American Society for Biochemistry andMolecular Biology annual meeting, held in conjunction with theExperimental Biology conference in San Diego.
Multiple research teams have beentrying to figure out what makes that huge difference between regrowthhere and no regrowth there. The Tulane lab, in particular, has beeninvestigating which genes are turned on, which proteins are expressedand which molecular activities change at the site of amputation overtime.
The second article or blog exposes someof tricks our “caring” hospitals play on unsuspecting Medicarepatients. Since Medicare will not cover some of the trickshospitals commonly play, the full cost gets shoved on patients andsome of these costs are exorbitant and falsely inflated as high as800 percent for some over-the-counter pills.
What hospitals are doing is admittingpatients as observational patients and not an inpatient status. Thisis their way of billing full costs to the patient and saving moneyfor Medicare program payments. If there is a way to get the money,hospitals are finding ways of passing costs onto the patients and atthe same time registering the patient for savings in the Medicareprogram. This is what I would term getting money in both hands andovercharging the patient and Medicare. Double dipping is anotherterm that comes to mind.
What patients on Medicare are advisedto do is check with their supplemental coverage plan to find out ifindeed hospitals in their coverage can get by not notifying them oftheir status and billing requirements. Medicare does not care andwill not cover, but in some states the supplemental plans require ahospital to notify the patient and get their signature before theycan bill them.
I strongly suggest that you take thetime to read this and then familiarize yourself with the rules inyour state. Whether this is for yourself or another family member,know that forewarned is forearmed. This is one way to prevent beingtaken advantage of by our uncaring and unscrupulous hospitals.
The last item is on the American healthcare system and why we have less to say in our healthcare costs thanany other developed country. What Americans do control in healthcarespending has declined faster than it has in any other developedcountry in the last few decades for which we have data.
The data shows that the United Stateshas been moving in the wrong direction by removing health dollarsfrom patients' control. In turn it has been putting your healthcaredollars in the hands of the government and insurers to spend. Noother developed country has allowed its citizens to lose almost halfof their healthcare dollars in the last twenty years.
In Canada, where a government monopolyover residents' access top health care is in place, the share ofhealth spending controlled by patients has remained unchanged. Withthis happening, Canadians now enjoy more direct control over theirhealth dollars than Americans do.
This tells us that we need to makesome changes and regain the advantage by making long-term goals toreturn control of our healthcare funds and make this a top priorityin the coming election.
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