"Johns Hopkins Medicine enacts system-wide ban on Medicare patients" - CNN

[randombetch]

April fools?

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[deleted307836]

April fools?

Aww you got my hopes up.

 

[BBender716]

No, seriously, it's not exactly as the thread title says, but Hopkins IS aiming to dramatically increase the number of medicare/medicaid patients they are turning away by twenty fold:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/01/HopkinsReducesMedicarePateints/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+Top+Stories)

 

[blaithnaid]

aww, qt.

lol, anyway, no hospital would do that. they're the only guaranteed payors.

 

[Frazier]

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[deleted307836]

aww, qt.

lol, anyway, no hospital would do that. they're the only guaranteed payors.

That's not true.

Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients

Sometimes, accepting medicare means operating at a loss for those patients.

 

[7starmantis]

No, seriously, it's not exactly as the thread title says, but Hopkins IS aiming to dramatically increase the number of medicare/medicaid patients they are turning away by twenty fold:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/01/HopkinsReducesMedicarePateints/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+Top+Stories)

What? I was expecting at least a good rick roll out of this thread.

disappointed.....so I rick rolled myself!

 

[BBender716]

What? I was expecting at least a good rick roll out of this thread.

disappointed.....so I rick rolled myself!

Fixed

 

[Marcus Brody]

inb4 it's true

 

[BBender716]

inb4 it's true

awww snap.

 

[jturkel]

aww, qt.

lol, anyway, no hospital would do that. they're the only guaranteed payors.

not true.

That's not true.

Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients

Sometimes, accepting medicare means operating at a loss for those patients.

beat me to it. the one out here in arizona no longer accepts NEW medicare patients BUT will continue treating current medicare patients already in their system

 

[randombetch]

Haha darn, I guess I should have put something more dramatic in the title! "Johns Hopkins School of Medicine accepts 8 year old genius" or something.