I saw in another thread that someone said Medicare can decline reimbursement for enclosed cath kits if there had not been two "documented UTIs" in the past year.
Does anyone one know the details of this policy and how it is applied in practice? I went through multiple UTIs for a year or so some months ago, like six or more, culminating in an emergent hospitalization, but I've had no UTIs over the last year and about one per year for the year or two prior to that. I obviously do not want to modify what for me has been a safe and successful protocol, not to mention one which has been easier, faster, and cleaner than using non-kits.
Since kidney issues and UTIs are so dangerous, I don't understand why Medicare would consider 1 UTI, or 1 UTI every other year, safe, if there are ways to get that number down. UTIs are really tough to manage for me, the antibiotics affect bowel, very hard to transfer with a fever, and if there is a hospitalization who knows what happens, with all the risks of hospitalization.
Does anyone one know the details of this policy and how it is applied in practice? I went through multiple UTIs for a year or so some months ago, like six or more, culminating in an emergent hospitalization, but I've had no UTIs over the last year and about one per year for the year or two prior to that. I obviously do not want to modify what for me has been a safe and successful protocol, not to mention one which has been easier, faster, and cleaner than using non-kits.
Since kidney issues and UTIs are so dangerous, I don't understand why Medicare would consider 1 UTI, or 1 UTI every other year, safe, if there are ways to get that number down. UTIs are really tough to manage for me, the antibiotics affect bowel, very hard to transfer with a fever, and if there is a hospitalization who knows what happens, with all the risks of hospitalization.
Medicare sterile cath kit policy?
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