How hospitals avoid penalties for making patients sick
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 13:50
in Health & Medicine
For years now, health care reformers have been pushing hospitals to do what should be obvious: protect patients from hospital-bred infections that make them sicker than they already are. Starting in 2008, Medicare stopped reimbursing hospitals for hospital-acquired infections. The idea was to hit careless hospitals where it hurt and give them a financial incentive to clean up their act. But what has been the impact?