An American medical response (AMR) ambulance crew transporting a sick woman to a hospital from her home in Las Vegas, Nevada, in this photo file, March 24, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Steve MarcusWASHINGTON | Fri 29 april 2011, 1: 11 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters)-hospitals providing medical care for older patients improve, and reduce deadly mistakes, gets millions of dollars under a incentive program launched on Friday that seeks General Medicare costs.
The Government health care program for seniors spent about $ 4.4 billion in 2009 for the care of patients who were harmed in the hospital, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Hospital readmissions because of faulty care costs Medicare, by both the Democrats and Republicans, another $ 26 billion of budget cuts.
Hospitals that meet the performance standards of quality in the following year 2012 receives a share of around 850 million dollars. The funds comes from what Medicare would otherwise have paid for additional hospital stays.
"It is a historic change," Donald Berwick CMS Administrator told reporters on a telephone conference.
"For the first time hospitals across the country will be paid for stationary acute services based on medical quality not only on the amount of services they provide."
The initiative to improve the quality of care in President Barack Obama health care overhaul was called for.
The intention is to costly errors and repeated to reduce hospital stays and to follow up with patients to make sure they are handling instructions.
"It is the most important answer to the question of healthcare sustainability, achieving lower cost through high quality is the correct way to do this," said Berwick.
Medicare spending is expected in the coming decades, balloon as the 77-million-strong baby boom generation retires and is inspired by the benefits.
Studies have shown that hospital errors behind so many 98,000 deaths per year in the United States.
(Reporting by Donna Smith; Laura MacInnis edit)
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