{"id":2644,"date":"2016-04-20T10:46:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2016-04-20T10:46:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:46:23","slug":"at-teaching-hospitals-aggressive-screening-may-lead-to-medicare-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"At Teaching Hospitals, Aggressive Screening May Lead To Medicare Penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 The puffiness along Carol Ascher\u2019s left leg seemed like normal swelling, probably from the high dose of chemotherapy Dr. Karl Bilimoria had injected the previous day. But it could have been a blood clot. He quickly ordered an ultrasound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were just being abundantly cautious,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Such vigilance is a point of pride at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. But the hospital\u2019s tests have identified so many infections and serious blood clots that the federal government is cutting the institution\u2019s Medicare payments for a year, by about $1.6 million. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/at-teaching-hospitals-aggressive-screening-may-lead-to-medicare-penalties\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=28668933&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--XAtRhcKALxlqjEtQ_p78FJLUMfNUCIOrNLCjWeDHq7ulfiTugHCwEJEexMm4HAdSHjVD1XdJdrLW9JJCmZS0R-6uTFA&amp;_hsmi=28668933\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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