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Many Mass. hospitals will pay for errors.
Kowalczyk L. Boston Globe. September 17, 2007;Metro section:1A.

This article reports on how numerous Massachusetts hospitals have implemented policies to waive charges for the set of serious errors categorized as never events.
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