New York State Medicaid will no longer reimburse for certain 'never events'
Compliance Monitor, June 11, 2008
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Starting in October, New York’s state Medicaid program will stop reimbursing hospitals for 14 different types of avoidable medical errors that can cause serious complications for their patients.
According to a statement released by the state’s Department of Health, Medicaid will no longer reimburse hospitals for the following avoidable errors:
The health department will continually review the list, which it will revise and expand over time.
Hospitals that receive money from the Medicaid program will be required to document any complications that are present on a patient’s admission in order to better determine what conditions were a result of poor hospital care. The statement cited a 1999 report issued by the Institute of Medicine that estimated 98,000 annual deaths are the result of medical errors.
The state health commissioner, Richard F. Daines, MD, said the new policy is designed to raise awareness about medical mistakes and reduce the likelihood that they will occur in the future.
Medicare announced in August 2007 that it would stop paying for eight preventable complications and in April proposed adding nine more preventable complications to the list.
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