Medicare will stop paying hospitals for the added costs of treating patients who are injured in their care.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — If an auto mechanic accidentally breaks your windshield while trying to repair the engine, he would never get away with billing you for fixing his mistake. On Wednesday, Medicare will start applying that logic to American medicine on a broad scale when it stops paying hospitals for the added cost of treating patients who are injured in their care.
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– In a large group of Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, depression was associated with a higher death rate from all causes during a two-year study period. The findings are published in the October 2008 Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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Medicare will stop paying hospitals for the added costs of treating patients who are injured in their care, and has provided a list of “reasonably preventable� conditions.
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Starting tomorrow, Medicare won’t pay for a list of complications that could be avoided.
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In a large group of Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, depression was associated with a higher death rate from all causes during a two-year study period.
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In a large group of Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, depression was linked with a higher death rate from all causes in a two-year study period.
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“Medicare: Trends in Fees, Utilization and Expenditures for Imaging services Before and After Implementation of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005,” Government Accountability Office: The report examined the effect of a rule included in the DRA that physician reimbursements for outpatient imaging services could not exceed what Medicare pays for such services in outpatient hospital settings.
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