Conclusions and Relevance This economic evaluation found that fall-related adverse events represented a clinical and financial burden to health care systems and that the current Medicare policy limits reimbursement. In this study, costs of falls only differed marginally by injury level. Policies that in...
1 Falls cause a substantial burden to patients and health care systems.2-4 In 2012, the cost of falls to Medicare was $31 billion.5 Not only can falls result in serious injury or death,6,7 but older adults who experience falls also report increased anxiety and depression and reduced ...
MedicareReimbursement MechanismsDiagnosis-Related GroupsRestraint, PhysicalUnited StatesN Engl J Med. 2009 Jun 4;360(23):2390-3. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp0900963.doi:10.1056/NEJMp0900963Inouye, Sharon K.Brown, Cynthia J.Tinetti, Mary E.New England Journal of Medicine...
Fall and injury prevention BrandC. et al. A 10-year cohort study of the burden and risk of in-hospital falls and fractures using routinely collected hospital data BMJ Qual Saf. (2010) RosenthalM.B. Nonpayment for performance? Medicare’s new reimbursement rule N Engl J Med. (2007 Oct ...
Edwards Lifesciences(EW) shares surged 6.2%. The medical device company could see increased momentum for its heart valve repair system after The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said it was evaluating the possibility of national Medicare reimbursement for transcatheter repair procedures...
Constraining Medicare home health reimbursement: what are the outcomes? adverse outcomes, i.e., increases in hospitalizations, skilled nursing home facility admissions, emergency room (ER) use, or death among home health users... Nelda,McCall,Jodi,... - 《Health Care Financing Review》 被引量:...
Drivers of Medicare Reimbursement for Thoracolumbar Fusion Summary of background data: As healthcare spending continues to increase, variation in surgical procedures reimbursements has come under more scrutiny. TLF ... K Khanna,EM Padegimas,B Zmistowski,... - 《Spine》 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 ...
The additional hospital costs generated in the management of complications of pacemaker and defibrillator implantations Costs exceeded reimbursement for almost all Medicare patients with complications in this study, suggesting that similar shortfalls would occur under a ......
Medicare population appears to be tied closely to reimbursement in trend, but not always in magnitude.doi:10.1002/cncr.23421M.D. KatzCancerM.D.Katz. (2008) Androgen Deprivation Falls as Orchiectomy Rates Rise After Changes in Reimbursement in the U.S. Medicare Population. Yearbook of Urology ...
Injuries from falls can be devastating to patients and are now subject to reimbursement penalties from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Patient falls have been identified by the American Nurses Association as a nursing sensitive indictor suggesting that improvements in the quality or ...