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Medical evacuation flights from Haiti to the U.S. started up again after HHS officials said hospitals can receive federal payments equal to 110% of Medicare rates for providing care to Haitians.<\/p>\nMedical evacuation flights from Haiti to the U.S. started up again after HHS officials said hospitals can receive federal payments equal to 110% of Medicare rates for providing care to Haitians.<\/p>\n
A flight last night took 17 patients to Palm Beach, according to the Miami Herald<\/a>. (That’s one of the arrivals in the photo.) The medical evacuations had stopped last Wednesday after Gov. Charlie Crist had said that Florida hospitals \u0096 the destination of the vast majority of Haiti earthquake victims \u0096 were reaching the saturation point.<\/p>\n The feds yesterday activated more provisions of the National Disaster Medical System to help U.S. hospitals provide care to \u0093critically ill survivors\u0094 from Haiti. The NDMS is a voluntary system under which U.S. hospitals set aside some of their acute-care beds for NDMS patients and are guaranteed federal reimbursement at 110% of Medicare rates. Here\u0092s the HHS announcement<\/a> and more on the NDMS<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since the Jan. 12 earthquake, Florida hospitals have treated 526 earthquake victims, Florida officials said yesterday. The largest number — 413 — have received care at hospitals in South Florida. While the flights were suspended, there was concern<\/a> that patients would die if they didn’t reach U.S. hospitals. Here’s more on the situation from this morning’s WSJ<\/a>. <\/p>\n Photo: Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n Medical evacuation flights from Haiti to the U.S. started up again after HHS officials said hospitals can receive federal payments equal to 110% of Medicare rates for providing care to Haitians. A flight last night took 17 patients to Palm Beach, according to the Miami Herald. (That’s one of the arrivals in the photo.) The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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