From The Headlines: NY Medicaid To Stop Paying For 'Never Events'

Last September I blogged about Medicare's decision to suspend payments for hospital-caused second surgeries (see my 9/4/07 post) that will start this October. At that time I predicted that within a year private insurance companies would follow suit.


Today, the New York state Medicaid program has announced that it will no longer cover avoidable hospital errors that result in procedures or surgeries. You can read the article in its entirety here.

There are four months left until the new Medicare policy goes into affect. Still plenty of time for other states and private insurers to hop on board.