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

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. “Unfortunately, pretty much in every regard, the program has been a failure,” said Andrew Ryan , a professor of health care management at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, who has published extensively on the program. . ” In allotting the penalties, CMS evaluated 3,124 general acute hospitals.

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

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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. ” In allotting the penalties, CMS evaluated 3,124 general acute hospitals.