Love insurance companies ...
I HATE YOU!
The insurance company can always think of new things to get people to get them to take out additional insurance.
The latest clue - which is even advertised on billboards. A guarantee for a single room and a guarantee for an immediate date for surgery.
I think it's so nice that insurance companies promise such things, even contractual promise - but do so without consulting with various hospitals.
And because this is so I can bother me now with the following problems:
Our department has 2 (in words: two) single room in a class of the field. These rooms are usually always used - and, unlike the normal special classroom, which are often occupied with general class patients if no other beds are available - these are two single rooms always filled with people that a clause was in their insurance, or even privately pay for the hospital stay.
which there are more people than one might think. This means ... with additional insurance and Einzelzimmeraufzahlung, you have a few weeks waiting time if you insist on a single room.
Because we are a Plan hospital, and emergency operations are more the exception - and usually an emergency patient will be easy and they only, with no regard because if he a single or twin room is - and stays, operations can be planned well for us, and the people who are really to take a single room, a waiting time into account.
situation is different but for those patients who have just purchased those above-mentioned special insurance packages. The pound then that is the fact that their insurance contract them for an immediate appointment and of course, assures a single room.
BUT HOW IS THE WORK ?????
us to transport the patient lying in bed already by kick in the butt for that very? Or, alternatively, withdraw from the operating table in order to fulfill the promises of insurance? What should
we do when a patient lies with the super nice insurance package in our single room and turns up another such patient. Quick visit to the inflatable Notzimmer bring forth? Up folding bed in the garden? Or maybe rebuild our offices to a single room? So on the fly?
I mean, I have no idea what it looks like the larger hospitals. Whether there are plenty of single rooms, each one opens, or not needed? Whether you have in big houses vacant surgical Sääle (together with a clear start operating team of course), just waiting, that such Super-VIP shows up. I can not imagine any way. So how have
the insurance companies that presented exactly as they have created these special packages and advertised? Would really interest me burning.
And I say, let's face it - when I go in the next few days again the sentence. "But I have a supplementary insurance, which ensured of xyz ..." listen, I will get uncomfortable. And I think I'll call time on one of these insurance companies - and put not occur before I found someone there who can explain to me that - and is willing to deal with another patient, whom you so in favor of the Special VIPS could operate, although this patient has been waiting for weeks or even months on his appointment.
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