Under the new legislation, the Health and Senior Services Department will publish data regarding the frequency of certain hospital errors, such as wrong site surgery or leaving a sponge or instrument inside of a patient’s body. New Jersey previously required the department to publish the number of preventable errors that occurred, not information on individual hospitals, according to the report.
The new legislation also prohibits hospitals from charging patients or insurers for treatment related to certain medical errors or hospital-acquired conditions, according to the report.
Read the Inquirer’s report about the new New Jersey hospital error reporting legislation.
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