The $441M opportunity in heart surgery infection prevention

If hospitals with higher infection rates for heart surgery patients reduced rates, they could prevent about 2,600 infections annually and reduce Medicare spending by $441 million, Michigan Medicine researchers found. The study, published Aug. 6 in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, analyzed Medicare claims for nearly 240,000 cardiac surgery procedures performed across 1,000 […] The post The $441M opportunity in heart surgery infection prevention appeared first on Becker&#0...

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