CMS to Enhance HAC Prohibitions
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Feb. 17 will publish a proposed rule to prohibit Medicaid agencies from using federal funds to pay for medical care resulting from healthcare-acquired conditions.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Feb. 17 will publish a proposed rule to prohibit Medicaid agencies from using federal funds to pay for medical care resulting from healthcare-acquired conditions.
The rule also proposes to authorize states to identify other "provider-preventable conditions," which is a new category CMS intends to create, for which Medicaid payment would be prohibited.
Medicare presently lists 27 healthcare-acquired conditions for which it will not reimburse providers. The conditions fall into 10 categories: foreign object retained after surgery, air embolism, blood incompatibility, Stage III and IV pressure ulcers, falls and trauma, manifestations of poor glycemic control, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, vascular catheter-associated infection, surgical site infection, and deep vein thrombosis/pulmonary embolism.
The proposed rule will be available here.
--Joseph Goedert
The rule also proposes to authorize states to identify other "provider-preventable conditions," which is a new category CMS intends to create, for which Medicaid payment would be prohibited.
Medicare presently lists 27 healthcare-acquired conditions for which it will not reimburse providers. The conditions fall into 10 categories: foreign object retained after surgery, air embolism, blood incompatibility, Stage III and IV pressure ulcers, falls and trauma, manifestations of poor glycemic control, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, vascular catheter-associated infection, surgical site infection, and deep vein thrombosis/pulmonary embolism.
The proposed rule will be available here.
--Joseph Goedert
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