Only 51 home health agency received the lowest rating, while over 2,000 received the top ranking in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services new star ratings for home health agencies.
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The CMS Hospital Star Ratings are a key score of clinical quality that help inform value-based payments. The higher the score, the higher the quality and therefore the higher the reimbursement. However, the agency has long asserted that the Hospital Star Ratings are also a patien...
The Hospital Compare star ratings relate to patients' experience of care at nearly 3500 Medicare-certified acute-care hospitals. The ratings are based on data from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey (HCAHPS) measures, which include topics such as how well nu...
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Star ratings are very important to health plans, both because they are tied to bonuses and benchmark rates, and because they make a difference to consumers when choosing a plan. MA plans are very attractive to insurers as the demographic of senior citizens rises with the ret...
Affected plans earned a score of 4 stars instead of 5 on the call center metric as a result, reducing their overall ratings. Now, CMS needs to immediately rerun and republish the star ratings without including the phone call in question. ...
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 quar...
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