NY Medicaid to deny payment for hospital errors

New York Medicaid following the Medicare example with not paying for avoidable mistakes.  Last year 20 procedures were on the wrong patient or wrong body part  and 127 cases involved leaving foreign objects in the body after surgery.  BD 

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York hospitals soon won't be able to bill Medicaid for mistakes during surgery, medication errors and other deadly complications caused by preventable hospital blunders. The state Department of Health tracks these as "never events," or mistakes that should never happen. In October, Medicaid will stop paying for things like wrong-site surgery, wrong patient procedures, disability associated with treatment, medication errors and other problems.

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