Medicare Cuts Payments To 721 Hospitals With Highest Rates Of Infections, Injuries

Medicare is penalizing hospitals with high rates of potentially avoidable mistakes that can harm patients, known as “hospital-acquired conditions.”  To determine penalties, Medicare ranked hospitals for three types of HACs: Central-line associated bloodstream infections or CLABSIs, Catheter-associated urinary tract infections or CAUTIs and Serious Complications which is based on eight types of injuries, including blood clots, bed sores and falls.  Based on the hospital’s ranking from Medicare on these three specific hospital-acquired conditions, those whose score fell within the highest numbers are seeing their reimbursement impacted.   The full story and list can be found in the Kaiser Health News Article.

Connecticut’s hospitals on the list can be viewed at this link.