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Complications erode hospital margins while raising payer costs; extends economic analyses but remains hypothesis-generating.
Hospitals and third-party payers experience increased costs with surgical complications, with hospitals experiencing a reduction in profit margin. Both hospitals and payers appear to currently have financial incentives to promote surgical quality improvement.
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