As of October, the New York State Medicaid program will deny reimbursement on 14 “never events,” announced state Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, MD, on June 5.
Hospitals receiving payment under New York Medicaid will be required to provide information on each admission that will designate which complications were present on admission, and which ones occurred during or as a result of hospital care. Among the 14 avoidable hospital conditions that New York State Medicaid has identified as nonreimbursable are surgery performed on the wrong body part or patient, a foreign object inadvertently left in a patient after surgery, medication error, and blood incompatibility. Read the press release.
