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Hospitals to pay for own surgical mistakes

Hospitals will no longer be rewarded for leaving a sponge in a patient's chest during heart surgery or accidentally infecting a patient during a weight-loss operation.

This month, the federal government rolled out a new program that withholds some payments from hospitals that want to bill Medicare for the costs of correcting their own mistakes.

Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled, has named 10 hospital-acquired conditions that are "reasonably preventable" and should not end up costing the government money to put right. Some examples include a second surgery required to remove an object, such as a sponge or a medical tool, left in a patient during an initial surgery or improper catheter use that triggers a urinary-tract infection.

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