Question

Discuss how the CMS reimbursement rules for never events required a shift in the patient care delivery model in inpatient facilities.

Answer 1

• CMS is the center for medial and medicaid services.
• It addressed never events that stop payment to the facilities for preventable patient complications.
• Those are the following 10 categories

1. 3rd and 4th stage bed sores
2. Foreign material retained inside after surgery
3. Air embolism
4. Blood incompatibility
5. Falls and trauma
6. Manifestation s of poor glycemic control
7. CatheterCatheter associated UTI
8. Vascular catheter associated infection
9. Surgical site infection
10. DVT and pulmonary embolism

• The CMS reimbursement rules for never invents, have required a shift in the patient care delivery model in inpatient facilities.
• It is be
  • due to the fact that physicians or doctors must be much more helpful in selecting the patients that they will treat,
  • Due to the fact that these individuals face what is legally known as strict liability for any errors that are deemed preventable,
  • that should never take place by the hands of a trained and proficient physician.
• So that nurses and physicians need to take care patients