This article could be titled “Hospitals receive half as much for a commercial/non Medicare patient as they do for a Medicare Advantage patient” yet the cost to deliver the care for these patients is the same or May be higher for the elderly patient. And why is this? Shouldn’t the payment to the hospital be equal to what the costs really are? Hospitals make most of their revenue from procedures such as orthopedic replacements and heart surgeries and do not receive enough revenue for ICU or medical patients due to the CMS reimbursements. Maybe one of the issues here is the incredible amount of price control the government has on health care without any regard to what the costs truly are.
This article could be titled “Hospitals receive half as much for a commercial/non Medicare patient as they do for a Medicare Advantage patient” yet the cost to deliver the care for these patients is the same or May be higher for the elderly patient. And why is this? Shouldn’t the payment to the hospital be equal to what the costs really are? Hospitals make most of their revenue from procedures such as orthopedic replacements and heart surgeries and do not receive enough revenue for ICU or medical patients due to the CMS reimbursements. Maybe one of the issues here is the incredible amount of price control the government has on health care without any regard to what the costs truly are.