The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced star ratings based on patient experiences onHospital Compare, the agency's public information website, to make it easier for consumers to choose a hospital and understand the quality of care they deliver, the agency announced April...
CMS Issues First Hospital Compare Star RatingsMcCurdy, Debra
[Also: 1-star hospital number falls in latest CMS rankings, 5-stars slide; See the data] Some home health agencies do not currently have enough data to calculate and display star ratings. However, CMS continually updates Home Health Compare so that these home health agencies may hav...
Here are the hospitals that received a five-star rating from CMS, broken down by state, as listed on the Hospital Comparewebsite. To view a list of CMS' one-star hospitals,click here. Alabama Lakeland Community Hospital (Haleyville) Pra...
CMS has updated the Hospital Star Ratings page on Hospital Compare, unveiling the latest scores after the agency overhauled the methods for calculating the clinical quality measures.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is delaying the release of the hospital star ratings from April until June due to an error in one of the measures. CMS is updating the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings on the Care Compare website from April until July so it can correct ...
five-star ratings. The options are 1) reweighting the Safety of Care measure group, 2) reducing the rating of any hospital in the lowest quartile for Safety of Care by one star or 3) combining a weight change with a policy-based four-star maximum for any hospital in the lowest quarti...
reporting of CAHPS Hospice Survey results on the Care Compare or successor websites no sooner than FY 2022 and proposes that the calculation and display of the CAHPS Hospice Survey Star Ratings be similar to that of other CAHPS Star Ratings programs such as Hospital CAHPS and Home Health CAHPS...
April 16, 2015 – Medicare’s Hospital Comparewebsitemay have added the star rating system today but the new service – well, even the earlier service – is not getting five stars from Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News. His article published today is below. It is a “must read” for sen...
Williams added, “As is the case with Medicare Advantage star ratings and the hospital readmissions penalty, a clear geographic pattern is evident: New England, the Upper Midwest and Pacific regions score the highest, and the South and Greater Appalachia score the worst.” ...