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Patient falls challenged as no-pay events
Patients come to hospitals because they're impaired, then are given drugs that while beneficial, may impair their judgment and balance further. This makes patient falls a difficult problem to... Read more...
AHA, AMA balk at CMS nonpayment proposals for never events
The American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association have come together to challenge CMS proposals that would ban Medicare payments when surgeons operate on the wrong patient, the... Read more...
Leapfrog's never events policy has higher participation in 2008
As healthcare industry attention shifts to medical errors--particularly "never events" that increasingly aren't reimbursable by health insurers--healthcare organizations are adopting new, more... Read more...
Indiana hospitals see 24 percent more errors
While the absolute numbers are still small, they're moving in a questionable direction. The number of serious medical mistakes taking place in Indiana went up 24 percent last year, from 85 in 2006 to... Read more...
SC Medicaid plans to stop paying for errors
Another plan has joined the "no pay for errors" parade: This time, it's South Carolina's Medicaid program, which covers about 800,000 South Carolinians. Officials with the program say that they won't... Read more...
Hospitals in nearly half of states won't bill for never events
A new analysis suggests that hospitals in almost half of U.S. states will no longer bill patients for serious medical errors, up sharply from the beginning of 2008. In February, an analysis by a news... Read more...
IL Blue plan won't pay for errors
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois has become the latest Blue plan to roll out a policy banning payment for medical errors by hospitals. It's become one of several fellow Blue plans to announce... Read more...
KS health plans won't pay for 'never events'
Kansas' largest health plans have announced that they will stop paying hospitals for avoidable complications from care, including the administration of wrong blood types and certain infections. This... Read more...
TX hospital group issues medical-error billing guidelines
Following the lead of individual hospitals and associations around the U.S., the Texas Hospital Association has developed a policy designed to help its member hospitals determine when not to bill for... Read more...
CA hospitals disclose more than 1000 medical harm cases
California hospitals have made their first official disclosures of never events occurring in their facilities, a step required under a state law enacted in 2006. The disclosures, which cover the... Read more...
