Hospitals Risk Losing Medicare Payments if Infections Aren’t Reduced

Hospital HVAC News — Starting in October, hundreds of hospitals may see their Medicare payments decrease as a penalty for high rates of patient infections. The fee reductions — in which health care facilities will lose 1 percent of their Medicare reimbursements for a full year -- are mandated by a new government initiative, the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, part of the Affordable Care Act.

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