Talking Medicare's Hospital Fines For Too Many Patient Injuries - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News /news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/ ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News produces in-depth journalism on health issues and is a core operating program of KFF. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:42:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=32 Talking Medicare's Hospital Fines For Too Many Patient Injuries - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News /news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/ 32 32 161476233 Talking Medicare’s Hospital Fines For Too Many Patient Injuries /news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/ /news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:44:52 +0000 http://khn.wp.alley.ws/news/talking-medicares-hospital-fines-for-too-many-patient-injuries/ KHN’s Jordan Rau was on NPR and C-SPAN Monday to talk about coming Medicare penalties for about a quarter of the nation’s hospitals as detailed in his story.

The penalties will ding hospitals up to 1 percent of their Medicare pay for having higher rates of patient injuries. Watch the C-SPAN video interview and listen to the NPR audio of his conversation below:

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