Connecticut Insurance

A new hospital payment system to contain costs prices rose by an average of 18 percent for hospitalization and sometimes to the tune of over $ 9000 for a night.

A new hospital payment system to contain costs prices rose by an average of 18 percent for hospitalization and sometimes to the tune of over $ 9000 for a night.

Members of legislative bodies, hospital and insurance representative of the National Commission for hospitals and health care, patients and hundreds agree with something must be done.

”We all want this issue resolved,’’said Joseph’s Coat Worth, Vice President of government relations for the Connecticut Hospital Association.

The association is one of several groups, before the legislature to support a bill that aims to correct shortcomings in the system and that fair prices. The state of the Commission does not support the bill, but a measure aimed at a temporary solution.

”Of course, there are still some improvements to the current system and, of course, you will not be able to satisfy all of the situation,’’said Jeffrey Kramer, program director at the Center for Health Systems Management School of Business Administration the University of Connecticut.

Until last October, for patients and their insurance companies for invoices paid, the total actual costs for all days in hospital, and each laboratory or other service providers. Under the new system, they are still borne by the Commission for each hospital. Any fee is based largely on the hospital, average costs for treating a disease. The conditions are classifed as 471 entries useful namens”Diagnose-groups.”

Systems like Medicare and Medicaid and several states. ”This is the direction in most countries, the country is going, and it changes the nature and the way hospitals,’’said Kramer.

Prospective payment systems are designed to increase efficiency and low cost. Hospitals are not waiting for patients longer than necessary or demonstration of more tests than necessary, if a lump sum rather than extra money for each day or test.

”The employer community was really the driving force for the implementation of a cost-control system, due to higher insurance costs for employers,’’said Craig Leroy, director of relations public for the insurance industry Association of Connecticut.

The system gibt”Krankenhäusern an incentive,’’said John Rathgeber, Executive Vice President of Connecticut for Economy and Industry Association.

”If they provide less care, they make money,”he added.

The law was adopted in 1984, but it does not have its full effect from 1 October this year, At the same time, a group composed of representatives of the state of the Commission, the hospital insurance company group Business Organisation and develop rules accompany the law. The regulation led to increase by 18 per cent.

N”Hospital asked dass”Herr Coat Worth said.

”That’s exactly what we did not want to happen,’’said State Senator Cynthia A. Matthews, Wethersfield Democrat president and co-legislator of the Public Health Committee.

”We were shocked, like many rate increases,’’said Leroy.

Hundreds of patients have also been shocked by their bills. A man received a bill of $ 9229 a night during which he took birth in 1828 to $ actual cost of Lawrence Memorial Hospital in New London.

”It is a system of the middle of the action,’’said Marcia Schonberger, a management and liaison officers from the hospital committee. She added that insurance and hospitals would, in some cases, there is little time and others.

But each patient receives a Big Bill for a short Aufenthalt’’sicher feels like it is,’’said Ms. Schonberger. Ms. Berger said already, the Commission has no data on the number of bills, diagnosis or costs related to actual costs.