A 75-year-old patient in an acute care hospital who underwent surgery for an abdominal aneurysm developed a urinary tract infection 3 days after placement of a Foley catheter
The nurse believes that this is a reportable incident, and which of the following will happen as a re-sult? a. Medicare will be denied to the patient.
b. Medicare will take the hospital to court.
c. Nothing; it is not a reportable incident.
d. Medicare will not reimburse the hospital for this infection.
D
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) names select serious reportable events (SREs) as Never Events (adverse events that should never occur in a health care setting) (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2008). The CMS now denies payment to hospitals for any hospital-acquired conditions resulting from or complicated by the occurrence of certain Never Events that were not present on admission. Many of the hospital-acquired conditions are nurse-sensitive indicators, meaning that nursing interventions directly affect their development. Medicare is not denied to the patient and this is a reportable incident. Medicare does not take hospitals to court; it just denies payment for the Never Event.
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