What about the new govt. guidelines about not reimbursing for mistakes

[oramar]

I can see things like operating on wrong limb or forgetting to take sponges or scissors out of a wound. However, things like bed sores and UTIs and other infections are going to be hard (in a lot of cases) to pin on any one institution. So many very debilitated persons have MRSA and chronic UTIs and bedsores and it is hard really to lay blame anywhere. Not to mention that the people deciding what to pay for and what not to pay for will probably be clerks making 8 bucks an hour. If past experince with HMOs is any guide they will say "NO" to everything. What is your take on it? My take is it will make more paper work for bedside nurse, just like every other hairbrained rule the goverment comes up with.:monkeydance:

[oramar]

There is a really good discussion going on over at Nursing News and I would advise anyone reading this to go to it.

[reesern63, RN]

Isn't it a shame that we can't get our tax dollars back from the govt. when they screw up?

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

There is a really good discussion going on over at Nursing News and I would advise anyone reading this to go to it.

Here's the link: https://allnurses.com/forums/f195/hospital-borne-ailments-face-medicare-budget-ax-225853.html

It's probably a good idea to confine it to just one forum don't you think?

[GingerSue]

not sure about mistakes - yes - we are human, and human beings make mistakes,

but

for eg. when an older person has a professional health care service coming in to do footcare and the service provider cuts his foot (accidentally) - knowing he has diabetes, (and for this there is a fee of course), then the older person (with no car, uses a walker) has to pay for a taxi to get to the doctor, then has to pay for a taxi to get home (easily $40 right there return trip), and the cost of the antibiotics. Why should he, the patient, have to pay for the careless work done on his foot?