Medicare Policy Might Discourage Proper Care for Hospital-Acquired Infections

The Health Care Blog
By MAYA SEQUEIRA Medicare's recent policy of refusing to pay hospitals' additional costs to treat hospital-acquired infections fails to adequately incentivize prevention and proper treatment of these complications, associated with 99,000 deaths Read More...

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Posted Sep 29 2009, 10:50 AM by The Health Care Blog
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