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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

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“It’s very hard to capture patient safety with the surveillance methods we currently have,” he said. It said Davis ranked 38th out of 101 academic medical centers that use a private quality measurement system. Both it and Cedars-Sinai touted their five-star ratings.

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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

KHN

One problem, he added, is “you’re kind of asking hospitals to call out events that are going to have them lose money, so the incentives are really messed up for hospitals to fully disclose” patient injuries. Both it and Cedars-Sinai touted their five-star ratings.