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Originally Posted by ilovetv
Good point and I don't think it's off-topic. Those meds and many other hormonal ones would need to be covered by Medicare to alter the physiological functions involved.
I'm surprised no one above has commented on the aspect of spending on sex change surgery and after treatment while cutting other standard medical treatment reimbursements to the point of making primary care drs. unable to stay solvent in private practice.....a big topic here in TV since 85%+ of TVRH patients are Medicare and reimbursements are already extremely low.
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Agree...Agree..Agree...And let's add to this the jam that TVRH is in with fully 88% of it's entire revenue stream coming from Medicare. Those who are constantly finding fault with the hospital have to understand that the hosptial is being faced with handling more and more chronically ill people with ever-decreasing medicare reimbursements and no real alternative revenue streams to make up the difference.
The average hospital gets about 38% of it's revenue stream from medicare. TVRH has very little opportunity to benefit from private insurance or cash-paid elective surgeries. They are in a deep bind that's not of their own making and it's only going to get worse as time goes on.