The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) will be penalizing more than 2,000 hospitals nationwide starting in October 2012 under the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (the “Program”).  A number of New York hospitals were included on the list of hospitals to which CMS will apply the readmission penalty to reimbursements, including Beth Israel Medical Center, John T. Mather Memorial …
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