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Episode: What is Inflation Costing Medicare and Medicaid's Future
Description: My wife had a hospitalization for four days and five nights. No exotic surgery, no expensive medications, mostly nursing care and cardiology interventions for shortness of breath and coughing, no change in prognosis. She was given more medications and referred to her own Cardiologist who has just replaced her battery in her pacemaker and was contemplating the repair of a congenital mitro-value prolapse.
Total bill $39,378, Medicare paid $$8,180 provider hospital wrote off $30,198 and the patient copay was $1,000. The hospital claims that they lost $30,198 blaming Medicare for their high prices that private insurance is having to pay. Giving the Med...