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Cost of hospital infections staggering.
Byline: Josh Goldstein
Nov. 17--Patients who get infections while hospitalized are costing everyone big money.
A report being released today says that more than three-quarters of the 11,668 Pennsylvanians who got an infection in 2004 during hospital care for other ailments were covered by the taxpayer-funded Medicare and Medicaid programs.
In 2004, hospitals billed Medicare an extra $1 billion to treat the hospital-acquired infections in 7,870 patients, and Medicaid was billed $371.6 million more for 1,028 patients, according to the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, an independent state agency that tracks the cost and quality of health care.
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