CMS Policy to reduce hospital-acquired conditions had minimal impact

(Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) Hospitals may have avoided financial penalties by billing hospital-associated conditions (HAC) as present at the time of the patient's admission, supporting prior work that showed that a Medicare policy designed to monetarily penalize hospitals for preventable complications had an insignificant impact on reducing healthcare-associated infections. The new research was published today in Infection Control& Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
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