As of October 1, Blue Cross Blue Shield - after years of tolerating, and paying for, too much really poor quality medical care - will join the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services in denying payment to hospitals that commit nine preventable medical errors.
The medical errors in CMS’ policy include objects left in a body after surgery, air embolism following surgery, blood incompatibility, equipment-associated infections, advanced pressure sores and hospital-acquired injuries, including falls and burns. In addition to those six, the Blues added three others: surgery on the wrong patient, surgery on the wrong body part, and wrong surgery.
That's a start and is likely to reduce the number of preventable errors. On the other hand, the National Quality Forum, a Washington-based coalition of employers and health care organizations, has actually identified twenty eight preventable medical errors. The sooner that all insurers decline to pay - for all of these errors - the better quality care we are likely to receive.
Delay is fatal. Why not cover all twenty eight errors immediately?
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