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「転倒。血管カテーテルでの感染。。血糖コントロール不良による症状。尿道カテーテル感染。人工関節置換術に合併した深部静脈血栓症・肺塞栓。術野への異物遺残。冠動脈バイパス術・整形・肥満治療関連の創感染。空気塞栓。輸血不適合。ひどい床ずれ」。。。とりあえず10項目を指定している。
?普通の合併症も含まれている。。。?いいのこれで。
一方、ニューヨークを含む4州の「低所得者医療扶助制度Medicaid(Medicareに加入できない人たちが対象)」は、除外事象28項目を公表して、支払いを拒否する方針を明らかにしている。これにより年間入院費用1兆1千ドルのうち、2100万ドルが節約できる」と、試算しています。
「出来高払いから、医療の質に対して支払う方向へ医療政策を変換しようとするブッシュ政権の思惑を象徴している」、とのことであるが、「不必要な治療ではなく、予防や慢性疾患を重視しようとする点で、今度の大統領選挙の2人の候補は、いがみ合いながらも珍しく一致している」。。。とのこと。
こうした支払い拒否は、「医療過誤を減らすのに一役買う」、「量から質への変換」、「糖尿病や冠動脈疾患、慢性心不全の治療を奨励する」との名目であるが、「経費を削減する」ことが主な狙いで、「今後は、再入院率の高さや医療過誤にも焦点を当てていく」ことをもくろんでいるらしい。 * * * でも、アメリカは、まだ可愛いかしら。日本は本当の病気も「こそこそ、ときには、ふてぶてしく大胆に、いい加減な理由で」削ってきます。結構、大変な額です。
*************By ゆめみ
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Over the last year, four state Medicaid programs, including New York’s, have announced that they will not pay for as many as 28 “never events” (so called because they are never supposed to happen).
So have some of the country’s largest commercial insurers, including WellPoint, Aetna, Cigna and Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in seven states.A number of state hospital associations, including here in Minnesota, have brokered voluntary agreements that members will not bill for medical errors.
In April, Maine became the first state to ban the practice statutorily. The Congressionally mandated Medicare measure is not projected to yield large savings — $21 million a year, compared with $110 billion spent on inpatient care in 2007.
But it carries great symbolism in the Bush administration’s efforts to revamp the country’s medical payment system, which has long been criticized as driving up costs through perverse incentives that reward the quantity of care more than the promotion of health.
The real money, many health economists believe, may come from reorienting the payment system to encourage prevention and chronic disease management and to discourage unnecessary procedures. The two major-party presidential candidates support such a realignment, a rare point of consensus in a polarized health care debate.“This is a specific case of the larger pay-for-performance trend, the idea that you should pay more for quality than lack of quality, or in this case pay less for defects,” said Dr. Donald M. Berwick, president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
“This whole trend is like a juggernaut, and it is not going to stop.”Pay-for-performance makes use of both the carrot and the stick. Medicare now grants bonuses to doctors and hospitals that report quality measures.
It is experimenting with rewarding physicians who follow protocols for treating diabetes, coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, an arm of Congress, recently recommended reducing payments to hospitals with high readmission rates.
Three years ago, HealthPartners, a Minnesota-based health maintenance organization, was first in the country to refuse payment to hospitals for never events. Company officials said the policy has yet to save much money. But at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, which is owned by HealthPartners, the change has reinforced a new focus on reducing medical errors.
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