MA hospitals will not require patients or insurers to pay for procedures resulting in an adverse event
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, November 21, 2007
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Massachusetts became only the second state in the country to not require payment from patients or insurers for adverse events defined by the National Quality Forum. The policy will go into effect in January 2008. The list of events for which payment will not be required includes: Surgery on wrong body part, air embolism-associated injury, surgery on wrong patient, medication error injury, wrong surgical procedure, artificial insemination/wrong donor, retention of foreign object, infant discharged to wrong family, and incompatible blood-associated injury.
The announcement came after the state implemented other policies to encourage healthcare transparency. The goal of this initiative is to prevent adverse events and learn from past mistakes.
To learn more about this initiative, click here.
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