Hospitals face Medicare Fines for Too Many Patients Re-admitted.
If hospitals have too many patients returning within 30 days of treatment, due to “complications” they’ll lose part of their medicare payments. The penalty starts at 1 percent and slides up to 3 percent over time.
This penalty will nail the charity and teaching hospitals hardest, for numerous reasons.
This penalty is another incentive to make sure patients prior medication records are all correct, and the docs attend to correct prescribing practices.
They can still use Medicare which is better than nothing. The government helps us pay these medical bills through the program.