Becker’s Hospital Review reports “The funding cutoff was due to a CMS finding that the facility put its patients in ‘immediate jeopardy, which led to the death of one person earlier this year. A May CMS report cited the case of a patient who was sent home from {the hospital} after complaining of exteme back pain on Dec. 30, 2014. A hospital staff member subsequently called the patient and left him a voicemail telling him his kidneys were failing, but the hospital made no other attempt to contact the patient about his condition. The patient died Jan. 1, 2015, according to a Lincoln Journal Star report. CMS also found the hospital provided inadequate treatment to at least nine other patients.”
In part because of the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is cracking down/
