Hospital care?

Question

Is it a possibly that large hospitals give different levels of care to different types of patents such as people on medicare only and or HMO's. So would or could large hospitals have areas for different levels of care

Answer 1

They are absolutly not supposed to. There is a law, the HIPPA law, that states that all patients are due the best possible care that a nurse and doctor can give. Some hospitals do not take severe trauma patients due to the level of training and experience the staff has, that is why some hospitals are "Trauma Centers" and some are not. Otherwise all should be equal.

Answer 2

Although all hospitals are suppose to treat each patient with the best possible care it doesn't always seem to happen that way. I know that here in North Carolina that the teaching hospitals actually give a discount to patients who DO NOT have insurance. Not only are they better hospitals but they are giving discounts to how great is that. Granted you may get a student instead of a DR who has been doing this for 50 years but we are helping the future being the test dummies for the students.

Answer 3

I believe that larger hospitals, such as teaching hospitals (think Yale), usually provide better medical care as compared to a small-town no-name hospital, no matter what insurance you have or don't have.

Answer 4

I'm an x-ray tech, and I don't have any idea what kind of insurance a patient has (or doesn't have), so that doesn't have any effect on how I treat them (and it wouldn't even if I did know).