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Politics : Sioux Nation

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To: coug who wrote (113346)	8/19/2007 1:41:06 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) of 361502

Pray you never have to go to a hospital: ource: Associated Press (08-18) 13:14 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Medicare will stop paying the costs of treating infections, falls, objects left in surgical patients and other things that happen in hospitals that could have been prevented. -- The rule identifies eight conditions — including three serious types of preventable incidents sometimes called "never events" — that Medicare no longer will pay for. Those conditions are: objects left in a patient during surgery; blood incompatibility; air embolism; falls; mediastinitis, which is an infection after heart surgery; urinary tract infections from using catheters; pressure ulcers, or bed sores; and vascular infections from using catheters. -- Hospitals in the future will be expected to pick up the cost of additional treatment required by a preventable condition acquired in the hospital

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