PREPARING FOR THE NEW CMS REIMBURSEMENT CHANGES, PART I: THE UNAVOIDABLE PRESSURE ULCER.

This article was published in Clinical Geriatrics 16:6, p 19-23; 2008

Medicare recently announced that as of October 2008 it will no longer reimburse hospitals and nursing homes for preventable complications; included in this list of complications is pressure ulceration.  This article looks at the issue of unavoidable pressure ulcers and its implications for the new reimbursement policy.  This is Part I of a two-part series on pressure ulcers and Medicare reimbursement.

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