Hospital Laboratories Take Note: Medicaid will Cease Reimbursing for Hospital-Acquired Conditions in 2012

Medicaid policy takes effect on July 1, 2012, and mirrors existing Medicare policy Medicare was the first government program to announce that it would not reimburse hospitals for certain hospital-acquired conditions. Pathologists will be interested to learn that the Medicaid program is now prepared to institute a similar non-reimbursement policy. This fulfills a Dark Daily prediction that other government and private health programs would copy this Medicare policy. As of July 1, 2012, Medicaid...
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