[HSF] Post op mediastinitis

[Nasser F. Abou'Seada]

"On 9/8/07, Michael Firstenberg <msfirst at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Once again, Medicare is demonstrating a complete lack of understand of a
> problem.  So, if a surgeon/hospital will not get paid then why treat it?
> Just send it out to someone/someplace that will........ or maybe we can
> just
> ignore the problem all together.  DeNile is a river in Egypt.
> Is the next step that they wont pay for other infected things?  (hips,
> valves, pacemakers, grafts, etc) - obviously ALL infections can be
> prevented."


Mich
I do agree with your consensus about Infections and administrative
management ........... not sure about the relation between the "DeNile" and
the discused issue .... still ... thank you for the bit of information ..!

Yours

NFA

-michael
>
>
>
>
> On 9/8/07, Hgrmd at aol.com <Hgrmd at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ed,
> > Medicare also will not pay for infected lines.  I guess that  eventually
> > means they won't pay the surgeon for replacing the line.  Guess  my
> group
> > will
> > soon be out of the line business.
> >
> > Hal
> >
> >
> >
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Nasser F. Abou'Seada,
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