Becker's Healthcare May 26, 2022
The Leapfrog Group is urging CMS to scrap a proposal that would end public reporting of data on serious medical and surgical complications that occur in U.S. hospitals.
In its 2023 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule, CMS shared plans to suppress data reported by hospitals as part of a measure called the CMS Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite, or CMS PSI 90. This measure is a composite score of 10 serious and potentially fatal care complications, including pressure ulcers, falls that break a hip, lung collapses, blood clots and postoperative sepsis.
These 10 complications kill an estimated 25,000 people a year and harm 94,000, according to Leapfrog.
“Data on these complications is not available to the...
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