Medicare Trims Payments To 800 Hospitals, Citing Patient Safety Incidents

(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News)

Eight hundred hospitals will be paid less by Medicare this year because of high rates of infections and patient injuries, federal records show.

The number is the highest since the federal government five years ago launched the Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC) Reduction Program, created by the Affordable Care Act. Under the program, 1,756 hospitals have been penalized at least once, a Kaiser Health News analysis found.  Continue reading article here…

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