Federal officials have recently released two programs to take care of the most important health problem. Medicare system has been blamed lately for its failure to get better services in hospitals which ask a lot of money from the patients. The new programs have stated that Medicare will reduce the payments for medical mistakes in patients.

 These mistakes might be transfusing patients with the wrong blood type or forgetting a sponge in a patient during a surgery.

Starting this week new inspections will be made to accomplish the patients’ complaints. According to the Houston-based company DNV Healthcare is the first accreditor in the last 30 years while it is part of the new program. The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has held monopoly on all hospitals reviews.

 Lately, Medicare together with many private insurers have been focused on patient’s safety and quality of the health institutions after they were accused by advocacy groups, congressional investigators and media outlets of doing the opposite.

The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 asks the hospitals who participate to Medicare program to report a series of medical errors such as pressure sores and catheter infections to fractures caused by hospital workers. Medicare pays for more than a half of all infections taken inside a hospital.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services won’t pay the hospitals the rate for medical errors. According to the Center for Medicare Advocacy, a nonprofit group that tracks Medicare developments, Medicare will forbid billing the additional costs to patients.