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Thursday, November 10, 2016
LEVELAND - As the nation's drug overdose crisis now kills people in numbers more resembling a war than an epidemic, the FOX 8 I-Team has discovered a government policy that may actually be making the situation worse.
That policy reduces how much the federal government pays hospitals for the care of Medicare patients, based on how patients answer survey questions about how doctors controlled their pain.
If patients don't answer "always" to both pain control questions, indicating the doctors did everything they could for their pain, the amount of money the government pays the hospitals goes down.
And, ultimately, that can reduce the doctors' paychecks.
http://fox8.com/2016/11/10/doctors-pills-and-a-heroin-crisis-compared-to-vietnam/