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Impact of the 2012 Medicaid health care-acquired conditions policy on catheter-associated urinary tract infection and vascular catheter-associated infection billing rates
Rhee, C., Wang, R., Jentzsch, M. S., Hsu, H., Kawai, A. T., Jin, R., Horan, K., Broadwell, C., & Lee, G. M. (2018). Impact of the 2012 Medicaid health care-acquired conditions policy on catheter-associated urinary tract infection and vascular catheter-associated infection billing rates. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 5(9), Article 204. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy204
In July 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ceased hospital Medicaid reimbursements for certain health care-acquired conditions. Using billing data from 2008-2014, we found no impact of this policy on rates of 2 targeted conditions, vascular catheter-associated infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections, among Medicaid or non-Medicaid patients.
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