(the) Health Savings Accounts Blog » healthcare fraud http://www.msainfo.net/health-savings-accounts-blog HSA plans and general healthcare Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:28:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hospitals liable for hospital-acquired conditions http://www.msainfo.net/health-savings-accounts-blog/hospitals-liable-hospital-acquired-conditions/ http://www.msainfo.net/health-savings-accounts-blog/hospitals-liable-hospital-acquired-conditions/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:36:14 +0000 admin http://msainfo.net/health-savings-accounts-blog/?p=19 Oops.  Looks like we left a sponge in his abdomen.  Maybe that’s what is causing his post-surgical reaction.

You think? Maybe?

Under a new federal Medicare rule, hospitals will now have to pay to clean up their own mistakes. Although implemented on a baby-step basis, it’s a (baby) step in the right direction.

Here’s the link to the hospital-acquired conditions story

COMMENT:
One has to wonder how high the cost of health care would be today if hospitals (and by necessary implication, physicians and their assistants) did not (negligently) cause so many health related problems.

The fact of the matter is, hospitals are a good place to get sick — or even sicker.

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