Nursing Homes in DC Commited 529 Mistakes in One Year
The Washington Post article by Lisa Rein discusses th hospitals tallying their avoidable mistakes in the District of Colmbia, Maryland, and Virginia. In other words, the "reported" cases of medical mlpractice in these states.
The question then becomes, "what are we doing with this data?" The articel discusses how insurance companies are not paying for some of these errors, such as Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, tha will not reimburse for:
when a wrong procedure is done; when the wrong body part is operated on; when the wrong patient is operated on, and when a foreign object is left inside the patient, requiring another incision.
However, I hope the next step is not jut tosave money for insurance companies but for pateint safety and to compensate the victms for these "avoidable mistakes" that occur at Hospitals.
