Medicare adds to do-not-pay list



Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Medicare is adding to its do-not-pay list for hospitals two new categories of preventable conditions it won’t cover, a much smaller number than it had been contemplating. Last year, the Centers for Medicare and medicaid services set new ground by determining it no longer pay would extra costs for treating certain preventable conditions, referred to as “never events.” An example of a never event…

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