Hospital A creates a “never event” but doesn’t have the resources to manage the treatment. Hospital A transfered patient to Hospital B.

Does hospital B get paid from Medicare? And if Hospital B gets paid, why shouldn’t hospital A get paid?

Does hospital B sue hospital A to get paid?

Does hospital B and C and E and F and… refuse to accept a patient that needs a higher level of care as a result of a never event?

I just left a comment over there and blogger wouldn’t cooperate and it disappeared!

Sometimes pressure sores, fractured bones, UTIs aren’t diagnosed until a person actually seeks care. Shouldn’t hospitals be reimbursed for treating those people?

That’s one of the other silly things about this proposal. If these events happen outside of the hospital, they aren’t considered “never events” and will be reimbursed. The “never event” status only applies if these events occur inside the hospital.
That will drive up the cost of care by forcing hospitals to prove that a patient had a condition before being admitted in order to get reimbursed. For example, mandatory urine testing and x-ray surveys before any patient can be admitted to the hospital.