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... many long some hospital companies to stodgy a disproportionate share of patients at precisely the time the company stands to make the most money ... buys according to an exclusive Wall Street Journal analysis is part of a series on health care in America ... and the list as Chris Weaver joins us again that with the de tails of this one is that optimism on the polls in takes a given leaning states up from ... the Medi cab ride ... to the story millet that I'd Millie nine hundred thousand Beetel Records hospital claims to figure out when this particular kind of how I can see the numbers going through your eyes right ... right now and I knew from this this shocking thing is to visit this a time when you get the most money ... I'm ... it's when they ... get people to write so here's what works Medicare piece smaller ... soda Geely growing payments up to a certain point for each kind of patient depending on what they're in the hospital when sequester thresholds in twenty days perceptions patients twenty seven PM Visa's relented eases writes a serious serious stuff credited his cause was really only treat patients can be really prolonged care ... what's the cross the stretch book though the puny really job so why ... to this higher lump sum payment that got the cover the full rest of the hospitalizations of the best time ... is right when a ready when they get to that day ... now and in some other companies that you from the you've been looking at the moment was one of them says look you know you you do not counting people are dying and you know to stay in the hospital or until they that they pass away but people who died in the hospital has no opportunity to manage to do that their discharge because the length of stay is determined by their debts I'm in a hospital say that they don't manipulate destroyed cheats ... to make money they say it's all based on patient care by people who worked in this is the facility's tell us that in a very often they would ... do things a try to get doctors to order extra treatments to keep patients a will but one currently with the thresholds ... for Oliver the rush to get them out as soon as the cross ... Cameron we've got some shots you see at the stock's happens the Medicare patient but such a hotbed of as a roughly four hundred along ... some IQ cap hospitals across the US and and there are some of the chopped them up but that top line in each of those jobs tells tells you where ... you go past that point you gonna get some really big payment so it's it's it's not ... you know it's a hundred percent it's not you know it's on a cliff but it but it's certainly a case to be answered sure for for some hospitals for a visit to release the class for others the distribution is what ... makes it a more natural ... and interesting Lee nonprofits were much more likely to have the so the even distribution around this time words for profit company is key to a shareholder owned companies offer much more likely to have much much steeper class sizes say impacting that the cabin I guess what one or two things that one is that the money think of this costing taxpayers a lot of money in the other is that the cap of it ... is the impact saying that paddle people still getting the best that that they can beef up money so the the hospital say say yes and a lot of people who work there says they never took steps that would jeopardize patient care a lot of medical experts who point out the hospital is not safe place to pee they have higher rates of infection higher rates of unnecessary care ... aam ... and certainly don't want to send people hold so that when they're ready ... so there's brisk and I will have to see the before and I'll add alpha ... well Chris thank you Brian much for being nasty on Folsom it that a great story and then I can ago but back in that I ... aam and a few moms map thank you foreign much Kristin up all the will Street gentle check that out of its jagged or cough