The bad news: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced - TopicsExpress



          

The bad news: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it was going to stop tracking and publicly reporting eight egregious medicals errors that included when foreign objects are left in patient’s bodies after surgery and when a patient receives the wrong blood type in a hospital. The good news: After USA Today exposed this policy decision and after many patient safety groups weighed-in, the federal government reversed its decision and will now resume reporting these errors.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:12:13 +0000

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