26 August 2009  Monkey See, Monkey Do  File this under utterly
predictable:       Anonymous said...  I recently had ER
admission for bradycardia and AMS ER doc while putting in
Central Line puncutured rt lung. 7 days in ICU and this guy
still sends me a bill for what insurance and Medicare didn't
pay. Which list does that fall on. Most er docs say hasn't
happened to them  Anonymous said...  I'd say it falls into a
known complication of the procedure that is listed on the
informed consent form. I've done very few as it doesn't fll into
my clinical practice often enough to keep the skill up, but in
talking to those who do, if you haven't dropped a lung at least,
you haven't done enough.  Anonymous said...  Whose insurance
pays for wrong patient surgery? The person who was operated on
wrongly, or the person who didn't get the operation?  Carrie
said...  So I understand that the idea is that the hospital is
supposed to pay for the errors, but what keeps them from just
saying "oh, this wasn't covered, pay up" to t