5) Emergency physicians and administrators from different hospitals should join to develop a realistic and effective protocol to facilitate inter-facility transfer and prevent
patient dumping.
roadside dumping, trade dumping, dumping on one's friends,
patient dumping.
Bhuiyan then traveled the intertwined worlds of American health care and debt: scores of surgeries performed without insurance, an incident of
patient dumping, and a job layoff.
If space aliens come and replace PPACA with the health insurance system now in place in the Alpha Centauri B Empire, that would surprise me less than if the exchanges all start on time, have a few hiccups, then work pretty well (with the occasional exchange collapse, qualified health plan insolvency and sick
patient dumping scandal).
In the section on
patient dumping, HHS says, "Contractors must report to HHS any health plan issuer or group health plan they have identified as discouraging an individual from remaining enrolled in coverage offered by such issuer or health plan based on the individual's health status.
Issues that will need to be addressed include HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act),
patient dumping, conflict of interest, and discrimination.
33) The increasing media attention given to medical repatriation and its specific occurrences is beginning to mirror the media attention given to
patient dumping in the 1980s.
Though a private right of action exists, "the population that has historically been most vulnerable to
patient dumping is the poor and uninsured, a group of people often unlikely to have a lawyer to turn to when their rights are violated.
This is the result of a trade-off between productive efficiency, rent extraction, and
patient dumping deterrence: the effort of the hospital is distorted downward for the outliers to reduce the fixed price paid for the patients with low severity and limit the rent earned on these patients.
A Continuum of Medical Care for the Homeless in Order to Prevent
Patient DumpingIn June 2007, prosecutors filed civil complaints against two other Los Angeles area hospitals over four incidents of alleged
patient dumping.
To date, the program has shown that in communities where incentives are available, there has not been
patient dumping, said Francois deBrantes, national coordinator of the program.
Also known as 'demarketing of services' or 'management of patient mix,' (36)
patient dumping refers to the hospital practice of transferring or refusing to treat persons who are indigent, uninsured, or otherwise undesirable to admit.
Well, it turns out that 72 percent of the
patient dumping -- illegally sending patients with emergency conditions to other hospitals -- was done by those not-for-profit angels of mercy.
Although primarily intended to prevent
patient dumping, the law instituted fines for oncall physicians who do not respond to a request for help.
