A change for Medicare starting today... as of today, medicare starts charging penalties to hospitals that have too many patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge because of complications. Hospitals have been working to prepare for the change for well over a year. The government thinks about two-thirds of hospitals serving medicare patients  - more than 2-thousand across the country - will be hit with penalties averaging around 125-thousand-dollars per facility in the coming year. If you want to see how your local hospital performed, you'll be able to check out details online later, after medicare posts details online later in october.