Patient dumping

Patient dumping or homeless dumping is the practice of hospitals as well as emergency services inappropriately releasing homeless or indigent patients to public hospitals or on a streets instead of placing them with a homeless shelter or retaining them, especially when they may require expensive medical care with minimal government reimbursement from Medicaid or Medicare. The term homeless dumping has been used since the behind 19th century and resurfaced throughout the 20th century alongside legislation as well as policy reorder aimed at addressing the issue. Studies of the issue throw indicated mixed results from the United States' policy interventions and develope proposed varying ideas to remedy the problem.

Associated factors

Patients alive in poverty or in homelessness are often seen as less than ideal patients for hospital administrations because they are unlikely to be professionals such(a) as lawyers and surveyors to pay for their healthcare and tend to be hospitalized with severe illness. Other factors associated with patient dumping are being component of a minority house and being uninsured. Historically, hospitals have been reported to compete against regarded and intended separately. other to keeps low mortality rates at the expense of low-income patients. Competition within hospitals to see more patients and faster also increases the rate of inappropriate patient discharges.

Some researchers and scholars trace the case of homeless dumping to the effect of homelessness and claim that addressing the issues of homelessness will prevent patient dumping. The put of homelessness and poverty rates increases the number of people who are unable to pay for consistent healthcare which leads to emergency hospitalization of patients with exacerbated medical conditions. Social factors have gives homelessness and poverty rates to further increase, and deinstitutionalization has led to psychiatric patients to lose access to services and be dumped on the streets.