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Hospital Screw-ups - To Bill Or Not To Bill
Category: In Your Face
Poof! Hospitals are making charges for medical errors disappear from their bills.
More Than Half Of Massachusetts Hospitals Waive Fees For 'Never Events'
Thirty-three of 61 hospitals in Massachusetts have voluntarily adopted policies that waive fees for 28 "never events," such as wrong-site surgery and harmful medication errors, and other hospitals said they intend to do so in the future, according to a recent survey by The Leapfrog Group, the Boston Globe reports. According to the Globe, the fee waivers come "amid growing resistance from government and health insurers to paying for poor outcomes."
This sounds fair to me. But, not all hospitals are willing to use an eraser when bad practices cause additional medical charges.
Walter Ettinger, president of UMass Memorial Medical Center, which charges for medical errors, said, "Most people don't want to have these complications and infections," but "hospitals and doctors should be paid fairly for their services."
I can see the advertising for UMass Memorial Medical Center: We charge for medical screw-ups - it's the fair thing to do.
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