Claims involving routine medical procedures - scopes, injections, punctures, biopsies, insertion of tubes, or imaging - resulted in $215 million in incurred losses, according to an analysis of 1,497 cases.
George Washington University (GWU) Hospital in Washington, DC, prevailed in an 16-year-old lawsuit accusing the hospital of False Claims Act violations.
The patients who come into hospitals are often very ill and not in the best state. But give them a chance to help improve care, and if they are able, they are almost always willing.
It's doubtful that anyone goes into the Baldrige process looking for a site visit the first year.
You join a collaborative because you want access to data and ideas. Together you might find something out that individually you could not. That's the theory. And it works.
