Tag Archive | "penalty"

Medicare, benefits

Why Taking Social Security Benefits Early Costs Too Much

Starting Social Security early typically means getting a smaller benefit for the rest of your life. The penalty is steep.

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Medicare, infections

Medicare Trims Payments To 800 Hospitals

The penalties pit hospitals against one another in a race to prevent the most infections, blood clots, cases of sepsis, bedsores, hip fractures and other complications.

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hospital home care

Hospital readmission penalties for nursing home patients

A significant number of older adults are not ready to go home when they leave the hospital. About one-fifth are discharged to one of the nation’s 15,000 skilled nursing facilities for rehabilitative care.

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