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Landmark HHS OIG Report on Adverse Events and Patient Harm
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just released a landmark study reporting that 25% of Medicare patients suffer patient harm and that 43% of those, or about 12% of the total, are preventable.
CMS Proposes Another EHR-based Hospital Harm Measure
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the FY2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule governing payment for the inpatient setting. Prominent in the adverse event domain was the CMS announcement of a new EHR-based hospital harm measure; the opioid-related event eCQM measure (NQF #3501e).