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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 387842" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Jena, please call the hospital pharmacy and ask for a record of ALL medications that were dispensed for your daughter. Do this ASAP so that they don't try to bury the records. You may have to call around to various people to find someone who will figure out how to pull the pharmacy records, though I would start with either medical records or the pharmacy, or maybe the pharmacy manager. Docs cannot just wander around with the medications they gave your daughter. Heck, they cannot wander around with aspirin and give it to patients with-o requesting it from the pharmacy. There has to be a record SOMEWHERE of all the medications the doctor and nurses requested from the pharmacy for difficult child.</p><p> </p><p>The only other way they got the medications they gave to difficult child is if they were rx'd for another patient and were diverted to your daughter to make her more docile. That is a HUGE violation of federal law, and the doctor, nurse, and pharmacy people can ALL lose licenses if it happened. In some cases hospitals can lose accreditation for things like that - which costs them thousands and thousands of dollars as they would be dropped by most insurance co's. It may be a challenge to communicate exactly what you want, and you may have to deal directly with the hospital pharmacy to figure it out.</p><p> </p><p>The chart is supposed to, by law, include a record of every medication given to the patient. Leaving medications out is a HUGE offense. Either they didn't give your daughter those medications, which I don't believe given her behavior and what you were told was happening there, or they took a LOT of liberties and broke a lot of laws and endangered your daughters life greatly. By leaving out medications from her chart, if she had gone into some kind of cardiac arrest, seizure or other medical emergency, there is a huge chance that any treatment could have killed difficult child by interacting or overdosing her or suppressing her breathing. </p><p> </p><p>Do what you can to find those pharmacy records. If NOTHING else, ask the hospital for an itemized bill. They will include all medications on there because they want your insurance to pay for them. Hospitals use computerized systems to control medications so that each patient is billed appropriately. If you find errors on the hospital bill (there are almost always errors), most insurance companies will reward you for finding them. In this case it is the best way to find out what medications were actually given to her - and to prove that they did not keep complete records in the chart or they altered the chart later because there are all the medications shown and the bills for them, but none are in the chart. </p><p> </p><p>Your ins co may have the overall bill available online. You have a legal right to the itemized bill, though some hospitals will make you ask for it in writing. FYI, if they bill you extra for a private room and you did NOT sign something specifically asking for one then you don't have to pay for one. Unless they have your signature they cannot force payment. One hospital thought they could make me pay them $400 extra because they didn't put another patient in my room after surgery. They were very low on patients because there was a huge storm, so they tried to bill everyone the extra fees for the single rooms at the super outrageous "concierge service" level (they want to be snooty so they label it that though there is NO difference in services from this service to the regular single patient room, grr.). Not everyone knew that they could challenge the fees - my insurance company gave me $100 for winning the challenge for that fee and a bunch of others (like nine meals - I only got ONE from them and it was a cold sandwich. Period.).</p><p> </p><p>You are going to need PROOF that they gave her the other medications, among other things, if you ever want a chance to sue or let anyone know how dangerous this place is. You have a couple years on the statute of limitations, but you must get the records NOW if at all possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 387842, member: 1233"] Jena, please call the hospital pharmacy and ask for a record of ALL medications that were dispensed for your daughter. Do this ASAP so that they don't try to bury the records. You may have to call around to various people to find someone who will figure out how to pull the pharmacy records, though I would start with either medical records or the pharmacy, or maybe the pharmacy manager. Docs cannot just wander around with the medications they gave your daughter. Heck, they cannot wander around with aspirin and give it to patients with-o requesting it from the pharmacy. There has to be a record SOMEWHERE of all the medications the doctor and nurses requested from the pharmacy for difficult child. The only other way they got the medications they gave to difficult child is if they were rx'd for another patient and were diverted to your daughter to make her more docile. That is a HUGE violation of federal law, and the doctor, nurse, and pharmacy people can ALL lose licenses if it happened. In some cases hospitals can lose accreditation for things like that - which costs them thousands and thousands of dollars as they would be dropped by most insurance co's. It may be a challenge to communicate exactly what you want, and you may have to deal directly with the hospital pharmacy to figure it out. The chart is supposed to, by law, include a record of every medication given to the patient. Leaving medications out is a HUGE offense. Either they didn't give your daughter those medications, which I don't believe given her behavior and what you were told was happening there, or they took a LOT of liberties and broke a lot of laws and endangered your daughters life greatly. By leaving out medications from her chart, if she had gone into some kind of cardiac arrest, seizure or other medical emergency, there is a huge chance that any treatment could have killed difficult child by interacting or overdosing her or suppressing her breathing. Do what you can to find those pharmacy records. If NOTHING else, ask the hospital for an itemized bill. They will include all medications on there because they want your insurance to pay for them. Hospitals use computerized systems to control medications so that each patient is billed appropriately. If you find errors on the hospital bill (there are almost always errors), most insurance companies will reward you for finding them. In this case it is the best way to find out what medications were actually given to her - and to prove that they did not keep complete records in the chart or they altered the chart later because there are all the medications shown and the bills for them, but none are in the chart. Your ins co may have the overall bill available online. You have a legal right to the itemized bill, though some hospitals will make you ask for it in writing. FYI, if they bill you extra for a private room and you did NOT sign something specifically asking for one then you don't have to pay for one. Unless they have your signature they cannot force payment. One hospital thought they could make me pay them $400 extra because they didn't put another patient in my room after surgery. They were very low on patients because there was a huge storm, so they tried to bill everyone the extra fees for the single rooms at the super outrageous "concierge service" level (they want to be snooty so they label it that though there is NO difference in services from this service to the regular single patient room, grr.). Not everyone knew that they could challenge the fees - my insurance company gave me $100 for winning the challenge for that fee and a bunch of others (like nine meals - I only got ONE from them and it was a cold sandwich. Period.). You are going to need PROOF that they gave her the other medications, among other things, if you ever want a chance to sue or let anyone know how dangerous this place is. You have a couple years on the statute of limitations, but you must get the records NOW if at all possible. [/QUOTE]
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