Reimbursement Issues In Hospitals
Professor and Class,
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) came up with the idea that hospitals will not be reimbursed for preventable infections, I said to myself, someone is finally listening. Many hospitals have failed to adhere to their own protocols. Because of non-reimbursement issues, hospitals have clamped down on violators and implemented various committees to oversee those areas in question. For example, Foley catheters are now been removed promptly post operatively, sequential compression devices are been monitored more closely and hand sanitizers are installed at the entrances and in rooms of patient’s rooms. Chamberlain College of Nursing, (2015) argued that “no discussion of reimbursement is more important
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) came up with the idea that hospitals will not be reimbursed for preventable infections, I said to myself, someone is finally listening. Many hospitals have failed to adhere to their own protocols. Because of non-reimbursement issues, hospitals have clamped down on violators and implemented various committees to oversee those areas in question. For example, Foley catheters are now been removed promptly post operatively, sequential compression devices are been monitored more closely and hand sanitizers are installed at the entrances and in rooms of patient’s rooms. Chamberlain College of Nursing, (2015) argued that “no discussion of reimbursement is more important