Medicare has proposed more steps to link hospital quality with payment for the 2009 fiscal year and beyond. Nine preventable conditions would be added to the list of those Medicare would no longer pay for at a higher rate. And more than 40 quality indicators would be added to those hospitals have to report to receive a full payment update.
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