| Alabama | Yes | Physicians must report to the State Board of Medical Examiners any judgment or settlement during the preceding year, resulting from a claim or action for damages for personal injuries caused by alleged medical malpractice |
| Alaska | No applicable statute | N/A |
| Arizona | Yes | Insurers and plaintiff's attorneys shall report any malpractice settlement or monetary judgment against a nursing care institution to national practitioner data bank. |
| Arkansas | No applicable statute | N/A |
| California | Yes | A health facility shall report an adverse event (including medication errors) to the state no later than five days after the adverse event has been detected (Section operative July 1, 2007); A settlement over thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) or arbitration award of any amount or a civil judgment of any amount shall be reported to the state by the insurer or the care facility |
| Colorado | Yes | Health care facilities to report adverse/sentinel events to department of public health |
| Connecticut | Yes | A hospital or outpatient surgical facility shall report adverse events to the Department of Public Health on a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Health. An adverse event means any event that is identified on the National Quality Forum's List of Serious Reportable Events or on a list compiled by the Commissioner of Public Health and adopted as regulations |
| Delaware | No applicable statute | N/A |
| District of Columbia | Yes | Healthcare providers and facilities submit biannual reports, on January 1 and July 1 of each calendar year, on adverse events to the Department of Health. Each report shall contain, for each adverse event, the patient's full primary health record; provided, that medical information with respect to the patient's identity shall be de-identified and anonymous. |
| Florida | Yes | Adverse/sentinel events; Facilities must submit annual reports to the Department of Health; 2004 law creates the Florida Patient Safety Corporation to assist in improving the quality and safety of care. The law also establishes a near-miss reporting system. |
| Georgia | Yes | Final medical malpractice court judgments, arbitration awards, and settlements for each licensed physician to be reported to state. The information may be gathered from the physician, the board, medical malpractice insurers, hospitals, medical and specialty societies, and other appropriate sources. |
| Hawaii | Yes | Licensed physicians who do not have professional liability insurance shall report any settlement or arbitration award of a claim or action for damages for death or personal injury caused by negligence, error, or omission in practice, or the unauthorized rendering of professional services. The report shall be submitted to the department of commerce and consumer affairs within thirty days after any written settlement agreement has been reduced to writing and signed by all the parties thereto or thirty days after service of the arbitration award on the parties. |
| Idaho | No applicable statute | N/A |
| Illinois | Yes | Each health care facility shall report to the Department the occurrence of any of the adverse health care events (including medication errors) no later than 30 days after discovery of the event |
| Indiana | Yes | A health care facility, a health care professional, or an individual may file with state patient safety data agency reports alleging that a health care facility or a health care professional, by an action taken or a failure to act, caused or could have caused harm to a patient, including harm that resulted from or could have resulted from an adverse drug event. |
| Iowa | No applicable statute | N/A |
| Kansas | Yes | General medical errors; Providers must report errors and the compilation of these reports are delivered to the secretary of health and environment |
| Kentucky | Yes | Any agent or employee of a health care facility or service licensed under this chapter who knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the quality of care of a patient, patient safety, or the health care facility's or service's safety is in jeopardy shall make an oral or written report of the problem to the health care facility or service, and may make it to any appropriate private, public, state, or federal agency. |
| Louisiana | Yes | Must report judgment or settlement during the preceding year, resulting from a claim or action for damages for personal injuries caused by alleged medical malpractice. |
| Maine | Yes | Adverse/sentinel events; Facilities must report events to the Division of Licensing and Certification within one business day |
| Maryland | Yes | Facility must report certain adverse medical events to Department of Health within five (5) days of becoming aware of adverse event. |
| Massachusetts | Yes | Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction coordinates reporting and data collection efforts relative to patient safety and medical error reduction. |
| Michigan | Yes | Insurer must report to state information as to claims or actions for damages against a licensee; settlements in any amount; final disposition not resulting in payment on behalf of the insured; and a personal injury claimed to have been caused by an error, omission, or negligence in the performance of the insured professional services. |
| Minnesota | Yes | Each facility shall report to the Commissioner of Health the occurrence of any adverse health care events as soon as is reasonably and practically possible, but no later than 15 working days after discovery of the event. |
| Mississippi | Yes | A physician shall file a written report with the State Department of Health regarding each patient who comes under the physician's professional care and requires medical treatment or suffers death that the attending physician has a reasonable basis to believe is a primary, secondary, or tertiary result of an induced abortion. These reports shall be submitted within thirty (30) days of the discharge or death of the patient treated for the complication |
| Missouri | No applicable statute | N/A |
| Montana | Yes | Upon request, facilities must furnish information regarding medical errors or adverse outcomes to the Department of Public Health and Human Services |
| Nebraska | Yes | Every provider subject to the Patient Safety Improvement Act shall report aggregate numbers of adverse medical occurrences for each patient to a patient safety organization. Reporting shall be done on an annual basis by March 31 for the prior calendar year; All licensed dentists practicing in this state shall submit a report to the board within thirty days of any incident which results in death or physical or mental injury requiring hospitalization of a patient which occurs in the outpatient facilities of such dentist during, or as a direct result of, inhalation analgesia, parental sedation, or general anesthesia. |
| Nevada | Yes | Within 14 days of a sentinel event, a health care facility must report the date, the time and a brief description of the sentinel event to the health division |
| New Hampshire | Yes | Reports must ultimately include frequency of the causes of medical errors, unexpected adverse outcomes, and near misses. Law repealed effective July 1, 2010. |
| New Jersey | Yes | A health care facility shall report to the State Department of Health and Senior Services or, in the case of a State psychiatric hospital, to the Department of Human Services, in a form and manner established by the commissioner, every serious preventable adverse event that occurs in that facility. |
| New Mexico | No applicable statute | N/A |
| New York | Yes | Health care facilities shall be required to report adverse medical incidents to the state. |
| North Carolina | Yes | Nursing homes to report medication errors to third-party entity that reports to Secretary of Health and Human Services. |
| North Dakota | No applicable statute | N/A |
| Ohio | Yes | The director of health shall adopt rules governing hospitals in their submission of various types of information, including information regarding errors, to the director. |
| Oklahoma | Yes | Oklahoma Hospital Advisory Council may put in place quality indicators and data submission requirements for hospitals, to include Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators. |
| Oregon | Yes | The Oregon Patient Safety Commission is charged with establishing a confidential, voluntary serious adverse event reporting system to identify serious adverse events. |
| Pennsylvania | Yes | A medical facility shall report the occurrence of an incident or serious event to the Department of Health and the Patient Safety Authority within 24 hours of the medical facility's confirmation of the occurrence of the serious event. (FN 1) |
| Rhode Island | Yes | Any adverse medical incident that results in patient injury shall be reported to the department of health within seventy-two (72) hours or when the hospital has reasonable cause to believe that an incident has occurred. |
| South Carolina | Yes | Facilities licensed by the Department of Health and Environmental Control have duty to report accidents or incidents pursuant to the department's regulations. |
| South Dakota | No applicable statute | N/A |
| Tennessee | Yes | Every facility shall report unusual events, and certain other defined incidents, to the department. Any such unusual event or other defined incident shall be reported to the department by the facility within seven (7) business days from the facility's identification of the event or incident. (FN 2) |
| Texas | Yes | On renewal of a license under this chapter, a hospital shall submit to the Department of Health an annual report that lists the number of adverse medical occurrences at the hospital or at an outpatient facility owned or operated by the hospital during the preceding year; Ambulatory surgical centers must report adverse medical events annually to obtain renewal of license. |
| Utah | No applicable statute | N/A |
| Vermont | Yes | Hospitals are required to identify, track, and analyze reportable adverse events, adverse events, and near misses; determine what type of causal analysis, if any, is appropriate; conduct causal analyses and develop corrective action plans; disclose to patients, or, in the case of a patient death, an adult member of the immediate family, at a minimum, adverse events that cause death or serious bodily injury; report reportable adverse events to the department of health; and provide the department with copies of its causal analysis and corrective action plan in connection with each reportable adverse event. |
| Virginia | No applicable statute | N/A |
| Washington | Yes | Each medical facility shall notify the department of health regarding the occurrence of any adverse event and file a subsequent report as provided in this section. Notification must be submitted to the department within forty-eight hours of confirmation by the medical facility that an adverse event has occurred. A subsequent report must be submitted to the department within forty-five days after confirmation by the medical facility that an adverse event has occurred. |
| West Virginia | No applicable statute | N/A |
| Wisconsin | No applicable statute | N/A |
| Wyoming | Yes | Through the patient safety officer, each health care facility shall report to the department the occurrence of any safety event occurring after June 30, 2005. A safety event is an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury or the risk thereof; Each licensee shall report to the Board of Medicine any personal injury or wrongful death claim made because of any alleged act, error or omission of the licensee. |
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