If an IFPM patient is readmitted following pelvic reconstructive surgery utilizing mesh, will the patient and her insurance company (if applicable) be charged by IFPM and St. Lukes?
St. Luke’s and IFPM have agreed not to bill eligible patients or their insurance companies (if applicable) for charges associated with any readmission to St. Luke’s within thirty (30) days of the procedure as a direct result of an adverse outcome caused solely by an IFPM urogynecologist’s technical portion of the pelvic reconstructive surgery utilizing mesh performed at St. Luke’s. This does not include a readmission caused by an adverse outcome if the adverse outcome is not caused solely by an IFPM urogynecologist’s technical portion of the surgery.
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