For U.S. nursing homes, Medicare’s rules can provide a financial incentive to increase rehabilitative therapy for patients who may not benefit from extra care. WSJ’s Anna Wilde Mathews joins Lunch Break With Tanya Rivero. Photo: Getty
How Medicare Rewards Copious Nursing-Home Therapy
For years the APTA has recommended immediate aggressive therapy where available and possible as it pays off fast for patients and gets them discharged sooner. I don’t think getting the biggest bang for the medicare buck was ever part of their math.
I understand the concern but Medicare already, as merely alluded to, does check to make sure the patient is progressing, and so does insurance. Though they work a little differently.
The fact that someone has dementia has very little impact on offering care and asking repeatedly during a day is probably good for patients who live a freaking nursing home, are you guys kidding with this unethical angle, that’s total BS. Only when the dementia gets really bad or some other reason come up… They aren’t saying a person’s life lack value because they get dementia and it would be a severe blow to moral if that was foisted on the profession, are you really going there?
Oh, and if there is a pain problem the APTA recommended you CONTACT THEIR PHYSICIAN OR PAIN PHYSICIAN.