Health Affairs December 2, 2025
Amidst a chaotic health care environment, a troubling report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) slid largely under the radar earlier this year.
The OIG reviewed medical records of 770 hospitalized Medicare patients who were discharged in October 2018, identifying nearly 300 incidents of patient harm. This includes any undesirable clinical outcome that is not caused by underlying illness and is the result of medical care, or that occurred in a health care setting, such as falls and hospital-acquired infection. The most common type of harm identified in the report was medication-related errors (43 percent), which can include incorrect dosing, adverse reactions with other medications a patient may be taking, and allergic...
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