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Glenda Fauntleroy, DOTmed News | August 24, 2011
From the August 2011 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Dickerson says a Web-based application tool is currently in development that will provide hospitals with the information they need to implement strategies to prevent wrong-site surgeries on their own. The application is expected to be available to all 19,000 organizations that the Joint Commission accredits by this fall.
What’s more is that there is also strong financial incentive for physicians and hospitals to reduce these errors. Since 2009, Medicare no longer pays any of the expenses associated with wrong-site surgery.
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Many large insurance agencies, such as CIGNA, have also followed suit and refuse reimbursement facilities for any service involving a case of wrong-site surgery and other preventable medical errors that appear on National Quality Forum’s “never event” list. And as of 2008, hospitals in several states had issued policies to not bill patients who are victims of these mistakes.
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