Medicare and Medicaid Service announced that as of October 2008, it will no longer reimburse hospitals for treating preventable pressure ulcers.
Date Posted: 09/01/09
Hospitals around the country are scrambling to put new programs in place to prevent pressure ulcers after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced last month that as of October 2008, it will no longer reimburse hospitals for treating eight "reasonably preventable" conditions. Pressure ulcers are among the most prevalent, costly and dangerous on the list: In addition to interfering with recovery, lengthening hospital stays and causing extreme pain and discomfort, pressure ulcers can increase the risk of infection, with nearly 60,000 deaths annually from hospital-acquired pressure ulcers.
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