Medical News: Final Medicare Rule Shuts Off Payment for Erroneous Surgeries

Medical News: Final Medicare Rule Shuts Off Payment for Erroneous Surgeries - in Geriatrics, Medicare from MedPage Today

"The surgical mistakes join 12 categories of errors and preventable complications already on the CMS blacklist, which went into effect on Oct. 1:

* Objects left in after surgery
* Air embolisms
* Blood incompatibility
* Pressure ulcers
* Falls in the hospital
* Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
* Catheter-associated vascular infections
* Mediastinitis after CABG
* Inadequate glycemic control
* Surgical site infections
* Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
* Drug-induced delirium

For those 12 errors, however, CMS is denying claims only for hospital inpatient reimbursements."