Barton to receive full Medicare reimbursement
Barton Health will be getting its full Medicare reimbursement from the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction program.
There had been some doubt earlier this summer if that was going to happen
Barton Memorial Hospital will actually receive an additional 0.5 percent in Medicare reimbursement for its high performance scores in patient care. The higher reimbursement will be allocated from October 2014 through September 2015.
In a separate assessment, Barton Memorial Hospital has also received notification that it will not receive a penalty from the CMS’s Hospital–Acquired Condition Reduction Program, as erroneously speculated by Kaiser Health News.
“We are pleased, but not surprised that Barton is a high-performer,” Clint Purvance, Barton’s chief medical officer, said in a statemement. “Our hospital’s staff and physicians consider patient safety, quality and patient satisfaction their highest priorities. The time and energy they have invested has greatly improved the outcomes on these measures for the past several years and continues to do so.”
Medicare may be happy with Barton because Barton’s screwed up billing department saves them money. I’ve had medical bills rejected by Medicare because it took Barton well over a year to bill them. When that happens, Medicare does not allow the hospital to bill back to the patient.
It’s time for the ‘Barton-Bashing’ to end. It’s a tired narrative from the past.
Amen Atomic. Most of the belly-aching in the comments on this site is a tired narrative.
It’s interesting that the news item was in a Kaiser Health News publication. It was “erroneously reported.” Right.