tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2010 Issue 22

Industry News: 1 In Every 7 Medicare Patients Are Harmed In Hospital Says Report

44% of the total patients harmed could've been kept safe. In a recent post in www.detnews.com, it said that following a government report that said that one in every seven hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries experience medical error during their stay, Medicare's chief demanded that more steps be taken to better patient safety. As per the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services, unexpected adverse events contributed to the death of about 1.5 percent of the hospitalized patients, or 15,000 people a month. "We have to do better," Dr. Donald Berwick, a well-known...

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