Denying payments doesn't cut hospital infections
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Denying payments doesn't cut hospital infections

Redmond : WA : USA | Oct 11, 2012 at 11:05 AM PDT
Source: MSNBC Health - Health care
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In 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began denying additional payments to hospitals whose patients became sicker as a result of bloodstream infections and urinary tract infections associated with the use of central lines or catheters. FULL ARTICLE AT MSNBC Health - Health care
 
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