Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers (thelemmy.club)

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[-] riverSpirit@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 months ago

You don’t see the issue of your medical practitioner trying to convince you to choose cost cutting death over the chance at living?

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Of course I do. No one should be pressured by anyone in regard to their code status, it’s a deeply personal choice, choice being the operative word.

You made an incorrect statement.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

DNR patients do, in fact, have hospital stays, sometimes extended. They get surgery. DNR is do everything up until I’m dead, then stop.

You’re talking about palliative care and hospice. Those types of care remove various life saving cares.

All hospice and palliative have a DNR code status.

Not all DNR code status patients are palliative or hospice.

It’s an important distinction.