Many Mass. hospitals will pay for errors.

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Many Mass. hospitals will pay for errors.

November 28, 2007

Kowalczyk L.

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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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