Pay Cuts in Never Never Land
In corporate America, when people make mistakes they or their company pay for it. In the world of healthcare, doctors get paid for their mistakes. Thankfully some of that will be ending, as the Bush Administration is stopping Medicare compensation to hospitals for "reasonably preventable" and "never events."
The former includes patient falls, pressure ulcers, UTIs, catheter infections and other conditions. The latter, or "never events," are for objects left in the body during surgery, blood incompatibility, air embolisms and other believe-or-not medical stupidities. Score one for pay-for-performance.
Posted by Shawn Whalen on August 24, 2007 at 1:26 PM
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