Yesterday, we posted about Medicare’s implementation of its new policy in which it will not pay hospitals for any costs that are related to patients being injured due to medical errors while they are in a hospital’s care.
According to this article on NEWSInferno.com, Medicare posts a list of mistakes that it will not pay for on its website. Medicare will not pay for mistakes that include when patients
• Receive incompatible blood transfusions
• develop infections after certain surgeries
• must undergo a second operation to retrieve a sponge left behind from a first surgery
• experience serious bedsores, injuries from falls, and urinary tract infections caused by catheters
It is estimated that this policy will affect several hundred thousand hospital stays out of the 125 million people covered annually by Medicare.
Friday, October 3, 2008
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