A study published in Health Affairs finds little effect from CMS' program to reduce hospital-acquired infections.
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Medicare's policy of not paying for certain hospital-acquired conditions produces the greatest reductions in these events in hospitals that have the greatest proportion of Medicare revenue to total revenue, according to research in Medical Care.
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