CMS Reimbursement Rules for Never Events: Shift in the Patient Care Delivery Model in Inpatient Facilities

CMS Reimbursement Rules for Never Events: Shift in the Patient Care Delivery Model in Inpatient Facilities
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According to the CMS rules, reimbursements are no longer applicable to the treatment of certain complications of care. It means that the liability falls on the part of the inpatient facilities that incur expenses emanating to the treatment of the listed complications (O’Rourke and Hershey, 2009). CMS regards the listed complications as preventable through evidence-based guidelines, and hospitals need to take proper precautions in order to prevent their patients from becoming victims of the complications. The aim of the subject CMS rules is to improve the quality of care that hospitals give to inpatients. Physicians, among other hospital staff, are mandated to ensure that patients do not contract the never event complications (O’Rourke and Hershey, 2009). The CMS reimbursement rules shifts the patient care deliver...