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(It could curtail federal Medicare financing for long-term hospitals that take too many patients from a single referring institution).
He was given short-term psychiatric treatment but was repeatedly discharged and he was rejected several times from long-term hospitals.
So they have a financial incentive to discharge patients to long-term hospitals, which then receive new Medicare payments for admitting the patients.
For-profit long-term hospitals generally spend less on patients and have higher margins than comparable nonprofits, according to data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, a Congressional research agency.
And even if it is extended, existing long-term hospitals will continue to admit nearly 200,000 Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance patients a year, without any proof that they match the quality of traditional hospitals, Dr. Kahn said.
The Kansas City hospital is part of a chain called the Select Medical Corporation, a publicly traded Pennsylvania company that runs 89 long-term hospitals, more than any other company.
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But if a regular hospital transfers a patient to a long-term care hospital, the long-term hospital gets a payment from Medicare that averages about $40,000.
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