18 Alabama Hospitals penalized for rates of readmission & hospital acquired injury and infections.

 

From The Kaiser Family Foundation:

"Under programs set up by the Affordable Care Act, the federal government cuts payments to hospitals that have high rates of readmissions and those with the highest numbers of infections and patient injuries. For the readmission penalties, Medicare cuts as much as 3 percent for each patient, although the average is generally much lower. The patient safety penalties cost hospitals 1 percent of Medicare payments over the federal fiscal year, which runs from October through September. Maryland hospitals are exempted from penalties because that state has a separate payment arrangement with Medicare"

 

In Montgomery that includes Jackson Hospital and Clinic Inc, which has been penalized for the past five years in a row for "hospital acquired conditions" and for the past seven years for "patient readmissions".

Also penalized for "hospital acquired conditions" for this year, 2021: Baptist Medical Center East and Baptist Medical Center South, both in Montgomery. Both of those hospitals have also been penalized for seven years in a row for "patient readmissions".

 

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