Study Estimates Hospital Penalties Generate Few Savings for Medicare - WSJ.com

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The government won't save much from Medicare's year-old policy of refusing to pay hospitals' extra costs to treat hospital-acquired infections and injuries such as bedsores, a new study concludes.

Medicare adopted the policy last year with the goal of saving lives and cutting costs. Each year, about 1.7 million Americans acquire infections while in the hospital, and 99,000 of them die, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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