| Subject: | Strategies to Reduce Patient Falls |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Mon, 11 Feb 2008 - 01:00 pm |
| According to The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Inpatient Prospective Payment System Reforms for 2008, effective October 1, 2008, CMS will no longer pay for eight preventable conditions. To review a complete list of these conditions, please see the StayAlert notice published on August 21, 2007. Since the CMS announcement, several state hospital associations, as well as national health insurers, have also announced their intent to either cease charging or... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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