Talking Medicare's Hospital Fines For Too Many Patient Injuries

KHN’s Jordan Rau was on NPR and C-SPAN Monday to talk about coming Medicare penalties for about a quarter of the nation’s hospitals as detailed in his story More Than 750 Hospitals Face Medicare Crackdown On Patient Injuries.

The penalties will ding hospitals up to 1 percent of their Medicare pay for having higher rates of patient injuries. Watch the C-SPAN video interview and listen to the NPR audio of his conversation below:

http://static.c-span.org/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.1399044287.swf?pid=320100-5

http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=323998618&m=324738308&t=audio

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<h1>Talking Medicare’s Hospital Fines For Too Many Patient Injuries</h1>
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		<time class="posted-on" datetime="2014-06-23T16:44:52-04:00">
			June 23, 2014		</time>
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<p>KHN’s Jordan Rau was on NPR and C-SPAN Monday to talk about coming Medicare penalties for about a quarter of the nation’s hospitals as detailed in his story<a href="http://www.kffhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/June/23/patient-injuries-hospitals-Medicare-Hospital-Acquired-Condition-Reduction-Program.aspx"> More Than 750 Hospitals Face Medicare Crackdown On Patient Injuries</a>.</p><p>The penalties will ding hospitals up to 1 percent of their Medicare pay for having higher rates of patient injuries. Watch the C-SPAN video interview and listen to the NPR audio of his conversation below:</p><p><a href="http://static.c-span.org/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.1399044287.swf?pid=320100-5">http://static.c-span.org/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.1399044287.swf?pid=320100-5</a></p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=323998618&m=324738308&t=audio">http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=323998618&m=324738308&t=audio</a></p><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/?share=x">				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/?share=facebook">				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/?share=linkedin">				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Talking%20Medicare%27s%20Hospital%20Fines%20For%20Too%20Many%20Patient%20Injuries&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2Fnews%2Ftalking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries%2F&share=email">				Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/#print?share=print">				Click to print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li><li>				<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a <a target="_blank" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://kffhealthnews.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=7497&amp;ga4=G-J74WWTKFM0" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p>

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