Many Mass. hospitals will pay for errors.

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Many Mass. hospitals will pay for errors.

October 3, 2007

Kowalczyk L.

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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