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What About Hospital Acquired Conditions? Daytona Beach Law Firm Rue & Ziffra explains

2008-05-20 20:53:07 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Law News)



Daytona Beach, Florida (CaymanMama.com) — According to “Inside the Joint Commission Online”, nosocomial or hospital acquired conditions are currently under close inspection the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Beginning October 1, 2008, Medicare will not pay hospitals to treat patients for eight hospital acquired injuries, infections and “serious preventable errors” such as giving a patient the wrong blood-type or leaving a sponge inside a patient after surgery. Medicare will pay hospitals for treating the conditions only if patients present at the hospital with them.

The hospital-acquired conditions that the CMS will soon deny payment for include:

• Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
• Pressure ulcers
• Objects accidentally left in patient during surgery
• Air embolism
• Blood incompatibility
• Vascular catheter-associated infections
• Surgical site infections for mediastinitis after open heart surgery
• Hospital-acquired injuries including fractures, dislocation, intracranial injuries, crushing injuries, burns and other unspecified effects of external causes

If you, or a loved one, have sustained a hospital-acquired condition as listed above, contact one of the experienced medical malpractice attorneys at Rue & Ziffra. Contact us today for a review of your case. We can provide answers to your questions and will take the time to help you understand the scope of your case as it applies to Florida medical malpractice law.



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