{"id":6703,"date":"2017-05-09T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:09:00","slug":"medicare-failed-to-investigate-suspicious-infection-cases-from-96-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6703","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Failed To Investigate Suspicious Infection Cases From 96 Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Almost 100 hospitals reported suspicious data on dangerous infections to Medicare officials, but the agency did not follow up or examine any of the cases in depth, according to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a style=\"background: #ffffff; color: #003b79; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-color: #cecece; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/oig.hhs.gov\/oei\/reports\/oei-01-15-00320.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>by the Health and Human Services inspector general\u2019s office.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/medicare-failed-to-investigate-suspicious-infection-cases-from-96-hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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