Hospital Reporting of Patient Harm Events per CMS and State Requirements

Hospitals collect information about patient harm events to meet Medicare requirements to measure, analyze, and track adverse patient harm events. Hospitals are also required to report certain types of harm events to meet CMS program and State legal requirements. Prior OIG work found that hospitals reported few harm events to State reporting systems (Few Adverse Events in Hospitals Were Reported to State Adverse Event Reporting Systems (OEI-06-09-00092)). We will determine the extent to which hospitals reported harm events as required per CMS program and State requirements. We will use harm events OIG identified through medical review for the study Adverse Events in Hospitals: A Quarter of Medicare Patients Experienced Harm in October 2018 (OEI-06-18-00400) as the basis for this review. This is a supplemental product to our ongoing study that is examining hospital identification of patient harm events (OEI-06-18-00401).

Announced or Revised	Agency	Title	Component	Report Number(s)	Expected Issue Date (FY)
January 2025	CMS, AHRQ	Hospital Reporting of Patient Harm Events per CMS and State Requirements	Office of Evaluation and Inspections	OEI-06-18-00401	2025