Evaluate the hospital, and their diapers too!

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Reading here, and my experience, hospital diapers are bad. The "service" associated with them can be so bad, makes them more necessary. So file a review with hospital, and with public on-line reviews. Only way we are going to get change.
My EOBs from Medicare and my Insurance show outrageous prices for them. Protest that with Medicare & Insurance Company.
 
In Ireland the diapers they use are the same brand I use ID slip which despite being cloth backed are suitable for my needs.

When I was in hospital overnight they used the ID slip plus instead of the super or maxi which I normally wear.

Over the years the hospitals here have used molicare and Tena.

Depending on the contract and supplier the hospital and government use.
 
My EOB showed medicare was charged 80.00 for TWO rolls of paper tape, which I can get at Walmart for 2.00ea, and they paid close to that amount.
 
You get a similar differential for any pill they give you in the hospital, prescription or OTC.
Never accept them at the hospital, if at all possible. If you are leaving, tell them you will pick up any OTC, or ask for a prescription, even if it is only one.
If you have insurance, besides Medicare, then Medicare pays part, the Insurance pays some of the rest.
It is just one more major reason the medical system in the good old US of A is so expensive, and is broken.
Resist! Get 'em yourself!
I'm not sure a hospital will allow you to bring in your own Rx pills; it would reduce your costs. And piss off the big medical and hospital corporations, and big Pharma. That's always a worthy goal.
Resist!
 
I was in the hospital a couple of weeks ago after emergency surgery. Due to the circumstances I was cathed the first couple of days after surgery. The last day I told the nurse I would be needing a diaper when they removed the cath. The hospital is outside our normal area so first time there. Apparently there was nothing in my file about being incontinent. She had to get some from central supply and yes hospital diapers suck!!!!! I had forgotten how bad they are but I do have to admit the nursing staff were amazing especially given how busy they are with COVID.
 
I have learned something here!! And that's to bring your own meds if you have to go to the hospital!! That is provided you have enough meds to see you through your hospital stay and don't have to get a refill!!
Just look 'em in the eye and say, "I want to reduce my costs and if it doesn't start right here with me, then where and when does it start???"
And your reasoning for asking for an Rx or something OTC when you leave the hospital is also very sound.
 
Most if not all hospitals will NOT let you bring your medicines from home due to a liability issues. Without testing your medications for proper dosage and ingredients, it leaves them wide open for a huge lawsuit if they dispense wrong meds.
 
The crazy thing to me is how many medical people don't read even the beginning of my chart before talking to me. There are always a million questions and a lot of repeating myself that could be handled if they took a second to read.

When I had my Botox done I had to explain over and over why I was there and what the Botox was going to do.

I also had to explain that I have incontinences more than I ever had to.

I always have way to much stuff with me in my backpack so I never have to worry about any issues with hospital diapers.
 
Hospitals, in my direct experience, won't let you take your own medications, or have them in the room, Rx or OTC. Way they enforce that is to tell you you can't. If you reject that, then they threaten to discharge you. They "explain" all (their) reasons why you can't leave. I haven't had one actually say they'll physically restrain me - but they did imply it. Mostly, they'll let you use your own diåpers.
Your regular Rxs mean nothing to them - you can only take what THEY give you. They know your medical history and ignore any part they want to ignore. Now, if they'd deign to explain? I've been lucky. All my other hospitals were good.
ERs are different. An ER nurse can tell the doctor to write a "now" Rx for you, knowing how hard it is to make ends meet; they have to, also, after all. Just have you promise to take that first one ASAP.
There is one hospital that I will have to be unconscious to go there - and upon coming back to consciousness, will leave if I have to do so in their gown.
Of course, if your spouse smuggles them in, the hospital will put their meds on the bill, anyway, even though you didn't take them. So you tell Medicare and the Insurance Company that the hospital is engaging in fraud. Boy, does that wake Medicare up! If you don't take theirs, the nurse freaks out and the docs get nasty. Well, "distant".
You go home and there are 12 Rxs waiting at the pharmacy - which they didn't tell you would happen. You have no way to understand. They prescribe ones you already take and the Insurance Company has a litter of kittens because your supply of the old (but the same thing) isn't out, yet. You have to explain to the pharmacist, and then he and you go over them, and he takes back (actually has to trash) the "overage", and you ask your real doctors and that pharmacist about the meds you didn't take before. Most get canceled. I went through exactly that. The lesson: pay Attention! Don't actually take home or accept whatever you don't understand or that you know is overage. The pharmacist knows that, if you are not sure. If necessary, call the Insurance Company. They'll help you so they get out of the cost. I had to go back for a check-visit. Just told the Doc: the Insurance didn't cover it and I'm not buying it. He was sorrowful; I was not so broke.
I'm not sure there is a way to win, but some of those drugs were pricey and I didn't have to pay for them. I didn't make medical decisions by myself, just let MY docs do that, and consult with me. One called the hospital Doc, and still didn't have me take one Med. I had good docs, I think.
 
In 2013 I was in hospital for seven months following an accident causing spinal injury, paralysis, spasticity and double incontinence. My incontinence was dealt with by daily bowel evacuations and for the first four months, by intermittent urethral catheterisation, until a suprapubic catheter was installed. No incontinence wear was issued or even mentioned. The hospital authorities seemed to prefer washing sheets rather than use protection. Bearing in mind that this was a specialist spinal injuries hospital where most patients would have become incontinent only recently, this was very poor preparation for leaving the hospital to return home.
 
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