This is in regard to the MRSA infections. The hospitals will now have to eat the costs associated with them.
My dad had a brutal one after heart surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital. They are lucky they didn’t face a lawsuit over it. I personally witnessed very careless handling of supposedly sterile equipment like IV needles, bags and such and I told them so. This after the infection was already being treated.
Hospitals simply have to start taking greater care with these things.
Most MRSA infections are community aquired.
The hospital that I work in tests patients coming in for surgery for MRSA prior to the procedure.
If they get a MRSA infection postop ( and tested positive for MRSA preop)- it is not the hospitals fault.
What I see happening is that doctors and hospitals will refuse to treat high risk patients- especially obese patients, MRSA positive patients, AIDs patients,etc. who have a higher risk of infection due to their obesity or immunocompromised status.