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´ On June 7, 2018 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services announced penalties—a year’s worth of
Medicare payments—to be assessed against 751
hospitals for failing to keep rates of hospital-acquired
infections and other patient complications below target
rates.
´ Hospitals Being Punished for Treating Sicker Patients?
Medicare
claws back
payments
from
hospitals who
are in the
bottom 25%
´ Academic teaching hospitals—many of whom are
among the premier hospital systems in the world—were
penalized more than non-teaching hospitals although
the rate is down from last year’s levels.
´ According to a Kaiser Health News analysis, a third of all
teaching hospitals were penalized. Last year the rate
was around 50%.