KevinMD August 26, 2025
Medical errors happen every day, and patients are being harmed in hospitals. Despite years of tracking and reporting outcome-based quality measures, preventable harm remains widespread, prompting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to launch the Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM). This measure, released in August 2024, focuses on structural and cultural root causes of harm rather than just retrospective results of quality improvement initiatives.
In our consultancy practice, we’re finding that many hospital leaders, particularly CFOs, CMOs, COOs, and CEOs, are unaware of the new CMS PSSM reporting requirements for the current calendar year, the level of effort it will take to fully implement the required strategies and practices, and the potential impact to future annual Medicare reimbursement...
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