A CMS policy intended to penalize hospitals by barring Medicare reimbursements for hospital-acquired conditions may be having little impact because hospitals can skirt the policy through careful use of billing codes, according to a recent study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology . The study comes shortly after CMS touted statistics showing a continuous decline in hospital-acquired conditions . Researchers analyzed rates of two types of hospital-acquired infections--central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)--in hospitalizations...