The Patient Safety Structural Measure: A New Initiative Designed to Reduce Medical Errors

Talk Ten Tuesdays

Recognizing that preventable medical errors, infections, and injuries are estimated to account for the deaths of 250,000 people annually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded public reporting by hospitals on rates of patient safety events. Furthermore, CMS recently introduced the Patient Safety Structural Measure, effective 2025.
Reporting on the details of this new initiative during the next edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be Leah Binder, president and CEO for The Leapfrog Group. Binder, long considered one of the more influential people in healthcare, is scheduled to be the special guest during the next live edition of the long-running and popular Internet broadcast, produced by ICD10monitor.
Also during the broadcast, these instantly recognizable panelists will report more news:
• The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the latest coding news.

• Social Determinants of Health: Tiffany Ferguson, CEO for Phoenix Medical Management, Inc., will report on the news that is happening at the intersection of medical record auditing and the SDoH.

• News Desk: Timothy Powell, ICD10monitor national correspondent and regulatory expert, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.

• TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

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Chapitres

1. The Patient Safety Structural Measure: A New Initiative Designed to Reduce Medical Errors (00:00:00)

2. Timothy Powell, CPA (00:02:01)

3. ICD10monitor Commercial (00:06:04)

4. Laurie Johnson, MS (00:07:10)

5. ICD10monitor Commercial (00:10:59)

6. Tiffany Ferguson, LMSW (00:11:48)

7. Leah Binder, MA (00:16:18)

8. [Ad] Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies - The Beltway Briefing (00:16:28)

9. (Cont.) Leah Binder, MA (00:17:07)

10. Erica Remer, MD (00:21:57)

11. Closing (00:28:40)