Industry Resources | February 22, 2021
Medicare Cuts Payment To 774 Hospitals Over Patient Complications
By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News
The federal government has penalized 774 hospitals for having the highest rates of patient infections or other potentially avoidable medical complications. Those hospitals, which include some of the nation’s marquee medical centers, will lose 1% of their Medicare payments over 12 months.
The penalties, based on patients who stayed in the hospitals anytime between mid-2017 and 2019, before the pandemic, are not related to covid-19. They were levied under a program created by the Affordable . . .