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Originally Posted by Jazuela
You can basically blame Medicare for that. Medicare is known to pay far less than any health insurance. Quality begets quality. Offer greater pay, you'll attract greater faculty and staff. If the best you can do is a 90% Medicare payout, then you'll get the bottom 10% of the quality care in return.
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That doesn’t explain why hospitals in urban depressed areas that often don’t get reimbursement for “charity care” receive four and five star ratings.
One of the items that received a low rating was patients perception of received care. Had nothing to do with insurance. Other items such as surgical complications and infection rates are included and not based on insurance payouts. Time waiting in ER was far greater than national average.
There are other areas of the country with large senior populations such as Sun City that support highly rated hospitals.
I suggest using Google and using the CMS (Medicare-Medicare) website to compare TVRH with nearby hospitals and examine specific criteria used and how the hospital rated.
Blaming “Medicare” without examining the facts does nothing to elevate the standard of care in our community. We deserve better.