Annals of Health Law
READY OR NOT
Hospital-Acquired Conditions Policy; 15 Excess Readmissions Policy; 16 Pay-
establish uniform national policies that would prevent Medicare from paying for certain
serious preventable errors in medical care. These included: wrong surgical or other invasive
procedures performed on a patient; surgical or other invasive procedures performed on the
wrong body part; and surgical or other invasive procedures performed on the wrong patient.
See Am. Health Lawyers Ass’n, NCDs Barring Coverage of Three “Never Events” Issued
by CMS, VII HEALTH LAWYERS WEEKLY ARCHIVE, Jan. 16, 2009, available at
http://dev.ahla.susqtech.com/News/HLWArchive/Pages/2009/January%202009/January%20
16%202009/ CMSIssuesNCDsBarringCoverageOfThreeNeverEvents.aspx. For a full record
of these NCDs, see http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/
Transmittals/downloads/R101NCD.pdf.
