• Not paying for catheter-associated urinary tract infections: more difficult than it seems

      Clark, Robin E.; Clements, Karen M. (2014-06-01)
      Policy interventions that attempt to influence patient care can be hard to implement and their desired outcomes can be slow to achieve. The efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce preventable infections by withholding payment for additional expenses related to catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) illustrate this challenge clearly.