Finally, some hard-to-find news is being revealed. How do we change the system? Excerpts below. Source at the end.

Hospitals Make More Profit When Surgery’s Go Awry, Study Finds
By Jennifer Broderick

A new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association on Tuesday said that hospitals often profit more when a surgery goes wrong. The study found that a surgical complication increases a procedure’s average contribution margin by 330 percent for the privately insured and 190 percent for Medicare patients…

A patient will typically end up spending 14 days in the hospital instead of three. If you have private insurance, the hospital makes $39,017 more in profit-$55,953 versus $16,936. If you have Medicare, the hospital makes just$1,749 more…

The study looked at data of more than 34,000 surgical discharges, and researchers focused on 10 severe and potentially preventable complications such as surgical site infections, deep vein thrombosis, and sepsis. A total of 1,820 patients had such complications…

Source: http://www.counselheal.com/articles/4954/20130416/hospitals-make-more-profit-when-surgerys-go-awry-study-finds.htm