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To: benwood who wrote (906)	6/17/2017 1:00:57 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2202

"Medical system encourages disasters in hospital because it can mean far more profit, hence MRSA infections rampant." Medicare Cuts Payments To 721 Hospitals With Highest Rates Of Infections, Injuries The health law mandates the reductions for the quarter of hospitals that Medicare assessed as having the highest rates of “hospital-acquired conditions,” or HACs. The new penalties are harsher than any prior government effort to reduce patient harm. Since 2008, Medicare has refused to pay hospitals for the cost of treating patients who suffer avoidable complications. Legally, Medicare can expel a hospital with high rates of errors from its program, but that punishment is almost never done, as it is a financial death sentence for most hospitals. Some states issue their own penalties — California, for instance, levies fines as high as $100,000 per incident on hospitals that are repeat offenders.