Question

Hospitals are unable to directly charge for nursing services provided by nurses without advanced practice degrees. This makes it very difficult for healthcare organization to determine the value of nursing care. Could this concept be changing? Discuss the following questions: Is there a relationship between nursing care provided at the bedside and hospital reimbursement under value-based purchasing and IPPS systems? Can it be measured? If yes, how? If no, why not. Is there a business case for improving nursing staffing at the bedside based on potential reimbursement for IPPS measures? If yes, describe your business case. If no, why not?

Answer 1

According to me their is very strong interlinked relationship between nursing care provided at a bedside and hospital reimbursement as nursing is the basic core part of patient care and nurses are the face of this real time patient care. Nurses are the largest proportion of healthcare industry which are involved in patient centric care taking as they are directly connected with the patient.
The reimbursements under value based purchasing are measured as these are primary needs of any healthcare seeking service and should be considered into account while reimbursement of total finances spent on health issues. Their should be a bussiness model which could cover the bedside nursing care and should be involved for potential reimbursement of IPPS System. That is minimum fixed amount to be decided for nursing care of bedside patients and it should be included in reimbursement claims for every single day care of patient to improve the patient centric approach of healthcare sector and also to boost the nursing sector as it is basic function of heathcare division.