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Anne Palm watches as a nursing aide helps transfer Donald Reiners, Palm's father, between a lift and a wheelchair in his room at a Department of Veterans Affairs facility.(TIM GRUBER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES)

Extra fees drive assisted living profits

November 21, 2023 at 6:51 a.m.

Assisted living centers have become an appealing retirement option for hundreds of thousands of boomers who can no longer live independently, promising a cheerful alternative to the institutional feel of...

Under the law, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services each year must punish the quarter of general care hospitals with the highest rates of patient safety issues even if they have improved and even if their infection and complication rates are only infinitesimally different from those of some non-penalized hospitals. (File: DigitalVision/Getty Images)

Health care paradox: Medicare penalizes dozens of hospitals it also gives five stars

February 8, 2022 at 11:08 a.m.

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of...

Medicare cuts payment to 774 hospitals over patient complications

February 20, 2021 at 6:25 a.m.

The federal government has penalized 774 hospitals for having the highest rates of patient infections or other potentially avoidable medical complications. Those hospitals, which include some of the nation’s marquee medical centers,...

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