enalty. na200 hospitals-- roughly two- thirds of those receiving medicare-- will forfeit money. tw care--1% of a hospital's medicare reimbursement. eimbexample, if a hospital submits a $100,000 bill to ill tore, the penalty would reduce the reimbursement to $99,000. in all, the penalized hospitals penalorfeit about $290 million ut medicare funds over the next far. steven love heads the dallas/fort worth hospital council. thesays the penalties are unfair to hospitals that serve primarily low-income populations. >> hospitals that treat people that are in low-income areas in don'tases don't have the primary care providers they need prim eedtheir communities. they may not have the pharmacies they need. nd so to coordinate that care outside of the hospital is going to be very difficult. >> reporter: scott, not all hospitals are failing to meet