To get Medicare payments, hospitals must disclose online info such as knee surgery complication rates & whether heart attack patients got prompt care. The same agency helps pay for 1/2 of 4 million births & could set similar rules on childbirth complications. But it hasn't.
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In California, safety experts and hospitals worked together to implement practices that are now endorsed by leading medical societies as the gold standard of care. Statewide, California’s maternal death rate has fallen by half. http://maternal.usatoday.com
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