Chapter 281 - Charging Arbitrarily and Spit 1
Putting down the newspaper, Niu Tiangou breathed a heavy sigh of relief, and then lit a cigarette. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At this time, the mobile phone rang, and when I saw it, it was Liu Sisi calling, and Niu Tiangou hurriedly pressed the answer button.
"Have you read today's Binhai Evening News?" Liu Sisi's voice was a little excited, and she asked.
"I just watched it." Niu Tiangou also replied excitedly, "I didn't expect it to be so soon." ”
"Well, I didn't expect that either." Liu Sisi paused, her voice seemed to tremble a little, "Yesterday...... Last night, I put ...... Posted that material online, and now ...... Now there are many netizens commenting on the post, some saying that it is good, and some are ...... Say bad, I'...... I don't know how to deal with it, you turn on the computer and see. ”
"Okay." Niu Tiangou hung up the phone and stood up, and saw that Dr. Xue Lian had already gone to the kitchen to cook, so he went directly into the bedroom.
After extinguishing the smoke and turning on the power, Niu Tiangou sat down in front of the computer.
Since getting married and buying a computer, Niu Tiangou rarely plays, and when he goes home to eat and wash, he hurriedly carries Dr. Xue Lian to the bed and is tired, and then he is tired and sticks to her and falls asleep, and he has no time and energy to touch the cold play.
How can that cold computer have a woman's warm and crispy **makes people eat bones**?
A moment is worth a thousand gold, half of a man is a woman!
No, ** a moment is worth a thousand gold, all men are beauties!
No, the honeymoon is worth 10,000 gold, and all of Tiangou is Xue Lian!
Therefore, Niu Tiangou only turned on the desktop computer to watch the news and movies when Dr. Xue Lian was working overtime, and he almost didn't touch the laptop except for Dr. Xue Lian who touched it a few times.
The computer slowly turned on, Niu Tiangou entered the words "million medical expenses" in the search bar, and when he pressed "search", the computer screen flashed, and the web page appeared.
Niu Tiangou clicked a few times casually and found that many mainstream communities had reprinted this matter, and netizens followed countless posts, which was overwhelming!
This incident of millions of medical expenses really touched the nerves of the society that "it is difficult and expensive to see a doctor", and detonated people's widespread doubts about the indiscriminate charging of medical services.
Grandma's, the speed of this network's broadcast is amazing and awesome!
Next, Niu Tiangou took one page at a time, stared at it and looked at it carefully......
Niu Tiangou carefully looked at more than a dozen web pages, and quickly browsed dozens of web pages in one go. I really didn't expect that netizens had different opinions about this million-dollar medical fee incident, and they had already begun to complain about the hospital's indiscriminate charges.
To sum up, there are those who count and reprimand the behavior of hospitals for indiscriminately charging fees under various names, those who criticize the millions of parties involved in medical expenses, those who express doubts about the problems that arise in the process of medical reform, those who satirize and ridicule the procedures of hospitals that charge fees arbitrarily, those who express their understanding and defend medical workers, and those who conduct indiscriminate investigation of hospitals...... And so on and so forth.
Of course, faceless posts denouncing hospitals for indiscriminate charging under various names dominated.
Many netizens strongly questioned the sky-high fees of the hospital's intensive care unit.
For example, netizens "Watching the World with Cold Eyes" posted: "In this million-dollar medical expenses incident, Mr. Liu stayed in the intensive care unit for 64 days and was charged nearly 700,000 yuan, with an average daily charge of more than 10,000 yuan.
"Admittedly, intensive care is a move by hospitals to improve their medical technology in recent years. Due to the serious condition of the patient, the time is urgent, and more advanced equipment needs to be used, the charging standard of the intensive care unit should indeed be higher than that of the ordinary ward, but the state stipulates that the charging standard of the intensive care unit is 3000~5000 yuan per day, why does Binhai Hospital charge more than 10,000 yuan in violation of regulations? Are these overcharges reasonable? Who regulates it?
Moreover, according to Mr. Liu's family, a deposit must be paid in the intensive care unit first, and the details of the daily charges will not be shown to the patient's family, and only when the patient is finally discharged or dies, a final account is given.
"According to the analysis of industry insiders: intensive care is a special medical treatment, although the relevant departments have regulations on the price, but in fact, the power is delegated to the hospital, and the hospital delegates the power to the doctor, which has led to the extremely high price of bed fees, monitoring fees, and drug fees in the intensive care unit.
"It follows that the charges for intensive care units are actually unsupervised. If this situation does not change, it may be difficult to eliminate the sky-high medical costs.
"With a sky-high price of more than 10,000 yuan a day, can the people who are seriously ill afford to live?"
More netizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the hospital's arbitrary charges, more prescriptions, repeated tests, and repeated charges.
Netizen "Tianya Knife" wrote in the post: "One day in mid-June, I came to a hospital for treatment because of the pain on the right half of my face. Because I didn't know which department I should see for my illness, I asked the medical staff at the registration office, and after hearing this, the other party asked me to pay a registration fee of 7 yuan, and then tore off a surgical outpatient registration ticket sorted as No. 12.
"After waiting in line at the surgical clinic for a while, the doctor looked at my registration ticket and said that I was going to see an ENT department for this disease.
"Helpless, I had to come to the registration office again and ask the medical staff if I could return and change the number if I had registered the wrong number just now, but the medical staff told me that once the registration ticket was torn off, it could not be refunded, and I could only buy a new one. In order to treat the disease, I had to swallow my anger and pay another 7 yuan to hang up a ENT number.
"I paid the registration fee twice for one doctor, Nima, isn't this a cheat? The hospital even collects registration fees indiscriminately, what else is there to dare? ”
Netizen "heartbeat speeded up by several yards" posted: "One of the most common means of indiscriminate charging in hospitals is to prescribe more medicines, regardless of whether patients can use them or not." One day in April last year, my daughter was on her way to school when the dust blew into her eyes, so she went to a nearby hospital to wash herself, and was asked for 135.4 yuan.
Among them, the so-called treatment fee is 40 yuan, local anesthesia is 17 yuan, and many drugs are prescribed, a bottle of eye drops costs 28 yuan, two boxes of capsules cost 42 yuan, and an eye ointment costs 8.4 yuan. In the end, the daughter only used a few eye drops to get her eyes fine, and the rest was useless, and it would expire after a few years, so she threw away the capsules and eye ointment.
"Isn't it a waste of time for doctors to prescribe more drugs to patients in order to get more drug rebates?"
Netizen "accustomed to watching Jiang Yue Qiufeng" also posted: "In addition to prescribing more medicines, more examinations and repeated examinations have also become a strange phenomenon in the hospital."
"My father had hepatitis B and couldn't be treated in the county hospital, so he wanted me to come to the provincial hospital for treatment. As a result, as soon as he was admitted to the hospital, he did dozens of hepatitis virus testing items, including more than 20 hepatitis B virus indicators, more than 10 liver function indicators, more than 10 immune function indicators, and imaging examinations such as B ultrasound and CT, which cost thousands of yuan in more than a week.
"My father said that some of the tests he had already done at the county hospital, but the doctors here asked him to do them again.
"Later, I met a familiar doctor who told me about it, and he said that hepatitis B patients have to spend hundreds of dollars a day in hospital, but if you find a reliable relationship to say hello to the doctor, you can have the same therapeutic effect by spending dozens of yuan, because some high-end drugs can be replaced by cheaper drugs, some repetitive tests can be omitted, and some tests that should not be complicated can be simply checked.
He also said that the more examinations, the more advanced the equipment for the examination, the higher the charges, and the greater the profits, so it is more and more common for some hospital doctors to write orders for examinations, and patients 'should not check the check, but the simple check is complicated'.
"Statistics show that at present, China's large-scale medical equipment or advanced equipment is frequently used, but most of them are doing 'useless work', and only 30% of the number of people who are examined are found to have symptoms after examination, which is far lower than the standard of 60% of the positive rate required by the Ministry of Health.
This means that at least half of the patients have expensive tests that shouldn't be done. In particular, after the departments of some hospitals are contracted to individuals, doctors give patients more examinations and repeat examinations with large or advanced instruments has also become the secret of 'making money'. ”
Netizen "Worried about the World" wrote in the post: "The lack of professional medical knowledge of patients and their families is also one of the main reasons for the indiscriminate charging of hospitals.
"When a patient comes to the hospital, what tests need to be done and what medicine is used, the patient does not understand, and the family does not understand, it is up to the doctor to decide, and the patient and his family can only obey unconditionally. Many of the doubts raised by the families of the patients in this 'million medical bills incident' are generated in this information asymmetry.
"There is no de facto equality of information between the patient's family and the hospital, and there is no way to know the actual situation of the hospital's examination and medication, and the doctor says that the medical expenses are as much as they are, and they don't know where and how they are used. In the absence of an effective and long-term supervision mechanism for hospitals, if this problem of doctor-patient information asymmetry is not solved, the million-dollar medical expenses incident will be repeated. ”
Of course, there are also those who express their dissatisfaction with the parties involved in the "million medical expenses incident".
Netizen "People's Voice" wrote unceremoniously in the post: "After reading the report of the 'Million Medical Expenses Incident', as a member of the common people, I feel bitter for hundreds of millions of ordinary people, and there are only two words left in my heart: I deserve it!"
"In this era when the poor can't afford to see a doctor, it's the rich who are slaughtered. If it weren't for the patient's family members who were willing to take the money and had the money to throw it in, how could there be such a million-dollar medical bill?
"Besides, the patient is hospitalized for 64 days, the hospitalization expenses should be settled every day, and the family can check the bill every day, so the family should be very clear about how much the patient spends every day, if the family thinks that the charge is unreasonable, the family can raise it a long time ago, and the doctor will definitely revise the doctor's order, why do you have to wait until more than 1.3 million yuan is spent and the patient dies before raising it? Why do you have to wait until you have lost your money and money to ask for an explanation?
"I think that the patients are probably medical insurance patients, and it is estimated that there are still a small number of patients who can enjoy publicly-funded medical care. The reason why the patient's family dared to spend more than 1.3 million medical expenses was because most of them could be reimbursed by medical insurance, and public expenses could be fully reimbursed.
"It is said that a provincial-level retired cadre who enjoys publicly-funded medical treatment spent 3 million yuan on a single hospitalization, which was borne by the state. These cadres do not feel sorry for spending the country's money, and the waste they cause is no less than the waste on the dinner table. This is what our people are persecuting and sighing with admiration.
"There may be two situations now: one is that Mr. Liu is a medical insurance patient, but because the amount of medical expenses is too large, far exceeding the limit of serious illness of medical insurance, the medical insurance department traces and it is difficult to reimburse; On the other hand, Mr. Liu is a patient who enjoys publicly-funded medical treatment, but because of his 'low level', his publicly-funded medical treatment does not implement co-ordination for serious illnesses, nor does he enjoy social medical assistance, and the expenses cannot be fully reimbursed, and all the materials, medicines, and services that exceed the publicly-funded medical treatment catalogue must be borne by the individual.
No matter what kind of situation Mr. Liu belonged to, in short, it was difficult for the patient's family to reimburse, and the excess part had to be borne by the patient's family, so the Liu family brothers and sisters, who had spent more than 1.3 million yuan and failed to save their father, were resentful, so they began to sue the hospital and extort the hospital.
"As for the hospital, in order to treat Mr. Liu's illness, of course, but also for its own interests, it may have changed a lot of expensive self-financed drugs into public-funded drugs or treatment fees, or it did collect some medical fees indiscriminately, but the fake kung fu was not good, and the Liu brothers and sisters who pretended to be stupid grabbed the handle.
"I think this may have been deliberately arranged by the Liu family brothers and sisters."
When he saw the post of "The People's Voice", Niu Tiangou suddenly sweated profusely.
This netizen's sharp and bitter words did point out the huge inequality between some people who currently enjoy medical insurance, especially publicly-funded medical care, and the majority of ordinary people who do not enjoy this treatment.
But to say that the Liu brothers and sisters reported that the problems in the hospital were "extortion of the hospital" and "deliberately arranged", it would be really wronged.
The brothers and sisters of the Liu family wanted to save their father's life, and they didn't think about money at all. Besides, the Liu family didn't care about that money, because they belonged to the "rich people" compared to ordinary people.
If Mr. Liu's illness is cured, it will not be worth spending one or two million more Liu brothers and sisters, the problem is that Mr. Liu was treated to death, and the Liu brothers and sisters feel that the money is too unjust, and there are indeed many problems in the charge, but they did not think and did not plan to negotiate with the hospital.
If it weren't for his reminder, encouragement and help, they would not have thought of reporting this matter to the above and the media, although they are resentful, but they will definitely be like many patients' families, and finally consider themselves unlucky, and if they can't do it, how can they talk about "extortion" and "deliberate arrangement"?
It should be said that he Niu Tiangou is the "behind-the-scenes" who made this matter exposed, but this netizen didn't know it.