Medicare Cuts $23M from Nearly Every Hospital in NJ
The federal government has penalized nearly every hospital in New Jersey because too many Medicare patients had to be readmitted within a month of their discharge, the highest percentage of hospitals penalized in the country.
Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus was the only hospital to receive no penalty.
The $23 million in cuts are up to 2.49 percent of a hospital’s Medicare payments. Medicare provides more than $3 billion in annual funding to New Jersey’s hospitals, making it the largest source of their revenue.
This article appeared in print on page 5 of edition of Hamodia.
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