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Medicare Funding to Murrieta Hospital
Days after state officials announced Southwest Healthcare System in Murrieta had received California's first $100,000 fine for putting patients at risk of death or serious injury, federal regulators announced they are cutting the hospital’s Medicare funding June 1. The action comes after a surprise federal inspection in January found deficiencies at the hospital in nine areas required for Medicare participation. Regulators said that Southwest already has had years to fix its problems. The hospital is entitled to appeal within two months and have a hearing before an administrative law judge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. If funding is cut, they may apply for reinstatement, but would have to show all outstanding problems cited had been fixed and pass unannounced inspections held over the course of at least three months. The last Los Angeles-area hospital to lose Medicare funding was Martin Luther King Hospital.
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times