NEW YORK, Jan 23: Large teaching hospitals and hospitals that primarily provide care to poor and uninsured patients are most likely to lose federal money under the US government’s plan to improve quality by tying payments to readmissions, according to new research. ‘The concern has been raised that when these penalties did come out, they would unfairly target the hospitals that treat the poorest and most complex patients,’ said Dr Karen Joynt, the study’s lead author from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. (agencies)
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