Nearly Half of CT’s Hospitals Will be Penalized for Substantial Injury, Infection Rates: Report

A number of Connecticut hospitals will be penalized for infection rates and injuries as part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, as reported by the staff at the Connecticut Health I-Team.

Nearly half of the state’s hospitals, 14 out of 31, will lose a portion of their Medicare payments this year, according to C-HIT. The penalty comes as a result of having too many patients who acquired preventable infections and injuries while hospitalized.

The 14 hospitals are among 769 nationwide that will lose one percent of their Medicare reimbursements, C-HIT reported. Affected hospitals includes facilities in Danbury, Norwalk, Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Wallingford, and New London among others.

Seven hospitals have been penalized for the past three years and four were penalized in back-t0-back years. However, nine Connecticut based hospitals have never been penalized since the inception of the program.

View the full list of 14 Connecticut based hospitals penalized at C-HIT.

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