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Medicaid will no longer reimburse hospitals for the extra cost of treating patients who are injured due to their own mistakes. For decades hospitals have been reimbursed for their own mistakes and the cost to correct them. But now, the federal government is tired of doctors and hospitals profiting from their mistakes.

Nine surgeries were either done on the wrong site, or the wrong surgery was performed in Utah hospitals last year. Of those, seven included foreign objects being left inside the patient.