{"id":19762,"date":"2022-05-12T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19762"},"modified":"2022-05-12T08:37:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:37:04","slug":"adverse-events-in-hospitals-a-quarter-of-medicare-patients-experienced-harm-in-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19762","title":{"rendered":"Adverse Events in Hospitals: A Quarter of Medicare Patients Experienced Harm in October 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; oig.hhs.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2010, OIG reported the first national incidence rate of patient harm events in hospitals-27 percent of hospitalized Medicare patients experienced harm in October 2008. During that month, hospital care associated with these events cost Medicare and patients an estimated $324 million in reimbursement, coinsurance, and deductible payments. Nearly half of these events were preventable.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.hhs.gov\/oei\/reports\/OEI-06-18-00400.asp\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/oig.hhs.gov\/oei\/reports\/OEI-06-18-00400.asp\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"49\" class=\"wp-image-9962\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General.jpg 623w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:&nbsp;<\/strong>The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; oig.hhs.gov) In 2010, OIG reported the first national incidence rate of patient harm events in hospitals-27 percent of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dhs-oig","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19763,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19762\/revisions\/19763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}