Enhancing Medicare’s Hospital-Acquired Conditions Policy to Encompass Readmissions
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Letter to the editor regarding: the effectiveness of medicare's non-payment of hospital-acquired conditions policy.
Schuller, et al.(1) conclusion on the lack of impact of the Policy regarding non-payment for -(CAUTIs) can be supported by data that has been published in the U.S. Federal Register. The policy of not paying for certain Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HACs) was mandated by the U.S. Congress for Medicare in the 2006 Deficit Reduction Act(2) and for Medicaid by the Affordable Care Act and essentiall...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicare & Medicaid Research Review
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2159-0354
DOI: 10.5600/mmrr.002.02.a03