Oncologist dumping

[ZpackSux]

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Many oncologists have their own outpatient infusion clinics. They will gladly provide expensive chemo therapy to the patients with favorable private insurance but the medicaid and medicare patients with very little reimbursement are sent to local hospitals.

It's called "Dumping."

Should a for profit hospital care for these patients?

Discuss.

 

[insipid1979]

Do these hospitals get any funding from the government? If not then they should be able to do whatever they want.

 

[ZpackSux]

Do these hospitals get any funding from the government? If not then they should be able to do whatever they want.

No funding.

 

[bananaface]

Gotta watch your contracts.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

When I was a hospital tech at city hospital, I remember the ****ers from the private hospital down the street used to send all of the medicaid patients to us because it went against their bottom line. It wasn't just oncology, either. Weird infections that necessitated something weird like Zyvox, quarantine, and a lengthy stay are another good example. I guess I can understand from a business standpoint and as long as healthcare remains a non-civil-rights level issue in the US, there really is nothing wrong with what they are doing.

 

[All4MyDaughter]

Many oncologists have their own outpatient infusion clinics. They will gladly provide expensive chemo therapy to the patients with favorable private insurance but the medicaid and medicare patients with very little reimbursement are sent to local hospitals.

It's called "Dumping."

Should a for profit hospital care for these patients?

Discuss.

It might be good for public relations to provide some amount of indigent care, but it isn't good for the bottom line. There is no obligation for a private business to give its services away.

 

[All4MyDaughter]

When I was a hospital tech at city hospital, I remember the ****ers from the private hospital down the street used to send all of the medicaid patients to us because it went against their bottom line. It wasn't just oncology, either. Weird infections that necessitated something weird like Zyvox, quarantine, and a lengthy stay are another good example. I guess I can understand from a business standpoint and as long as healthcare remains a non-civil-rights level issue in the US, there really is nothing wrong with what they are doing.

In my hometown there is a large regional, public hospital.
About 30 miles away is a private hospital.

There were TONS of ambulance runs from the private to the public every day. You show up there without insurance or cash - you get stabilized and trucked to the public hospital.

Do I like that? Not really. But I agree with you that they are allowed to do that.

 

[thelonius]

Many oncologists have their own outpatient infusion clinics. They will gladly provide expensive chemo therapy to the patients with favorable private insurance but the medicaid and medicare patients with very little reimbursement are sent to local hospitals.

It's called "Dumping."

Should a for profit hospital care for these patients?

Discuss.

Depends on whether you are you a capitalist or a communist?