Becker's Healthcare July 30, 2025
According to a July report from HHS’ Office of Inspector General, hospitals failed to capture 49% of patient harm events because staff either did not consider them harmful or were not required to disclose them.
The OIG established the first national rate of harm among hospitalized Medicare patients in a 2010 report, which found that more than 1 in 4 experienced harm, the report said. In 2012, the HHS branch said hospitals failed to identify 86% of harm events.
In 2022, the OIG reported 25% of hospitalized Medicare patients experienced harm during their stays in October 2018, and 43% of these harms were preventable.
For this study, the OIG traced 299 harm events among 770 Medicare patients discharged...
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