Latest Medicare Penalties On Patient Harm Hit 26 Georgia Hospitals

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February 5th, 2020

The government evaluates rates of infections, blood clots, sepsis cases, bedsores, hip fractures and other complications that occur in hospitals and might have been prevented, Kaiser Health News reported. The penalties are designed to encourage better care. But they have drawn criticism from hospital groups and others, who question their fairness in many cases.

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Medicare is penalizing 26 Georgia hospitals for high rates of infections and other patient injuries.

They are among the 786 hospitals identified by federal health officials that will get lower payments under the patient safety program, created by the Affordable Care Act.

The government will cut all Medicare payments for those hospitals by 1% during this federal fiscal year, which began in October.

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