tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 11

Patient Safety: HOUSE BILL SEEKS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

The House March 12 overwhelmingly passed patient safety legislation virtually identical to a bill it overwhelmingly passed last year. Under H.R. 663, hospitals and other healthcare institutions would report medical errors and “near-misses” to public and/or private groups certified by the Department of Health and Human Services as “patient safety organizations.” PSOs would analyze the information and report back to providers on causes of the errors and ways to redesign systems to avoid them. To facilitate the open flow of information and analysis, any “patient safety work product” developed by providers and PSOs would...

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