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In October 2008, Medicare ceased additional payment for hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) such as central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) that were not present on admission to the hospital. Our group’s prior work showed no impact of Medicare's HAC policy on already declining CLABSI rates overall, but we did not examine whether a hospital’s financial operating margin impacted its response to the HAC policy. This paper found that the HAC policy may have improved reported CLABSI rates in a subset of US hospitals operating at a financial loss at the time of policy implementation.
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This page is a summary of: Impact of Hospital Operating Margin on Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections Following Medicare’s Hospital-Acquired Conditions Payment Policy, Infection Control, November 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.250.
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