Changes in reimbursement are bringing nurse-sensitive quality measures to the fore. Medicare will no longer pay for complications like retained foreign bodies and pressure ulcers. And Medicare's administrator has proposed to Congress that part of DRG payments be based on meeting quality measures. That means nurses could be the new "rainmakers" for hospitals—a force driving reimbursement.
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