Under Pressure: Financial Effect of the Hospital-Acquired Conditions Initiative-A Statewide Analysis of Pressure Ulcer Development and Payment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the financial effect of the 2008 Hospital-Acquired Conditions Initiative (HACI) pressure ulcer payment changes on Medicare, other payers, and hospitals.

Design

Retrospective before-and-after study of all-payer statewide administrative data for more than 2.4 million annual adult discharges in 2007 and 2009 using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Datasets for California. How often and by how much the 2008 payment changes for pressure ulcers affected hospital payment was assessed.

Setting

Nonfederal acute care California hospitals (N = 311).

Participants

Adults discharged from acute-care hospitals.

Measurements

Pressure ulcer rates and hospital payment changes.

Results

Hospital-acquired pressure ulcer ra

SUBMITTER: Meddings J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5278926 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature