{"id":9717,"date":"2018-03-03T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2018-03-02T10:20:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T15:20:40","slug":"as-surgery-centers-boom-patients-are-paying-with-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9717","title":{"rendered":"As Surgery Centers Boom, Patients Are Paying With Their Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News and Mark Alesia, USA TODAY Network)<\/p>\n<p>The surgery went fine. Her doctors left for the day. Four hours later, Paulina Tam started gasping for air.<\/p>\n<p>Internal bleeding was cutting off her windpipe, a well-known complication of the spine surgery she had undergone.<\/p>\n<p>But a Medicare inspection report describing the event says that nobody who remained on duty that evening at the Northern California surgery center knew what to do. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/medicare-certified-surgery-centers-are-expanding-but-deaths-question-safety\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=61068105&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Q9N3FpzwKvfGdKaCO64lv9jJjpSm8JHnzqGLvlrNz3TpR0GiMtGi0z0QA5AfwSIgw9LbRQq2do_YPusKYRyiiMLbdxQ&amp;_hsmi=61068105\">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: 400; 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; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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