Cutting Indigent Chemo ???
I am appalled by the news release about the Muskogee Regional Medical Center, Muskogee OK, cutting chemotherapy to indigent receipients. (Senator Tom Coburn has priviledges there by the way). They are building a multi-million dollar facility and their Cancer center is the largest in the area and the largest in the state for a rural hospital. They are having problems with re-imbursement for chemotherapy. The oncologist are doing off-site chemo to the patients with insurance and sending the un-insured or underinsured to the hospital and the hospital gets no reimbursement. Why not tell the oncologist to send ALL their chemo patients to the hospital? Why start the spending cuts with the ones who are the most vulnerable? If these "indigent" patients can't afford either insurance or to pay the chemo, do you think they will be able to afford to go to Tulsa, an hour away every day? I doubt it. My mother recieved her chemo there and it is a wonderful facility. The First Baptist Church made 2 apartments just to help with housing of the cancer patients coming to the area for treatments, free to the patients. (donations excepted by the way)
What can be done? I don't know, but I think I would start cutting money from other programs like education and employee discounts on meals. These people will die without the chemo. Call the administration and tell them to cut money from other places, and force the oncologist to do in-hospital chemo...don't cut the patients who are the poorest and the sickest first.
MRMC's number is: 918-628-5501.
posted by Shelly @ 10:55 AM
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The whole MRMC cut is a load of crap to me. They over extended to build this huge wing and now the patients are going to suffer. They are laying off 50....one person that is being cut is the person that moniters all the heart screens in ICU. The floor nurses will now do this. God help me if I ever have a heart attack! I am sure they won't be able to.
That's just plain bullshit what they are doing to those patients. The state should be picking up the tab for those folks, they need the chemo just as much as someone with insurance.
There's a program here in Wisconsin that helps cover the costs for women that don't have Ins. It's called "Well Woman" and it's all funded by the state. My wife is covered by it. If we didn't have that here there is no way we would be able to afford the chemo she needs for breast cancer because we have no Ins.
Well, I have to admit that some of the nurses there need to actually start WORKING!!!
Like I said a sitting Senator, Dr. TOM COBURN is a doctor in muskogee. By the way, he also voted for cuts in medicare and medicaid which would have covered some of the expenses that the hospital is doing for no reimbursement. It isn't the hospital, it is the state!!!
What will happen if Muskogee doesn't do something quick, HMA or HCA or some of these hospital corporations will snatch it up and then the employees will REALLY start bitching, and the patients will be spending LOTS more out of pocket!! A state run facility can't operate when the state screws it every chance it gets.
MRMC isn't exactly state run, they are owned by the city of Muskogee, yet receive no tax revenues from the city. But do take medicaid and medicare, soonercare.
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