The rule identifies eight conditions — including three serious types of preventable incidents sometimes called "never events" — that Medicare no longer will pay for. Those conditions are:
• Objects left in a patient during surgery
• Blood incompatibility
• Air embolism
• Falls
• Mediastinitis, which is an infection after heart surgery
• Urinary tract infections from using catheters
• Pressure ulcers, or bed sores
• Vascular infections from using catheters
Is this rule is going to include Nursing Homes too. It should, I have seen a few Patients come from them with UTI's Falls, and Bed sore. You know they will find a way to pass the buck to the other patients. hmmmmm I can see it now I aspirin was 15.99 now at big blue hospital its 99.95 ahhhh the wonderful world of medicine you just got to love it.
2 comments:
That's very interesting. We see nursing home wounds and UTI's all the time too.
Well its is a common sense thing Hmmm I dont know it is in short supply where i work. So i doubt it will catch on
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