According to an article published this April\u00a0in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), rather than lose money when things go wrong, hospitals typically profit from the medical mistakes they make, whether or not negligence is involved. Interestingly, hospitals are compensated by insurers when patients stay hospitalized longer and additional care is required to address surgical complications and post-surgical errors.<\/p>\n
The study, “Relationship Between Occurrence of Surgical Complications and Hospital Finance,” looked at the results of nearly 35, 000 surgical discharges, the most common surgical procedures and complications, and how those were handled by insurers. The researchers also examined the hospital costs and revenue at discharge by payer type for 12 nonprofit hospital systems in the southern U.S. They compared the hospital costs and revenues for patients with and without surgical complications. The findings suggest that the occurrence of postsurgical complications led to higher hospital contribution for patients (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to an article published this April\u00a0in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), rather than lose money when things go wrong, hospitals typically profit from the medical mistakes they make, whether or not negligence is involved. Interestingly, hospitals…<\/span><\/p>\n