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SC Medicaid to stop paying for errors
Quality Improvement Monitor, August 29, 2008
Following the government’s lead, another state Medicaid program has decided to stop paying hospitals for hospital-acquired conditions, according to the Greenville (SC) News.
"Taxpayers have a right to expect their money is paying for quality care and not encouraging sloppy practices," Jeff Stensland, spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the Medicaid program, told the paper. "This is something we are fully in support of."
When CMS announced last month that it was expanding the number of conditions it would no longer pay for beginning October 1, 2008, the federal agency called on state Medicaid programs to adopt the same policy. Medicaid programs in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania already have policies that halt payment for preventable errors.
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