A Social Media Complaint Gone Wrong – And SNF Access after Surgery – MedLearn Publishing

A Social Media Complaint Gone Wrong – And SNF Access after Surgery – MedLearn Publishing

Let me start with an update on a story I have covered previously. A surgeon recently took to social media to complain about being pulled out of the operating room while performing a mastectomy and breast reconstruction to talk to an insurance company medical director about getting her patient’s overnight recovery approved as inpatient care. As I discussed, this was a failure on the part of the hospital’s utilization review (UR) staff, as the sur…