Quality & Patient Safety
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 24 will host a national provider call on its proposed methodology for determining the overall star ratings for measures on Hospital Compare, which the agency will make publicly available soon. On the call, from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 24 will host a national provider call on its proposed methodology for determining the overall star ratings for measures on Hospital Compare, which the agency will make publicly available soon. On the call, from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today added star ratings for hospitals reporting consumer perception survey measures at Hospital Compare, including an overall star rating for performance on the 11 survey measures. The survey is called the Hospital Consumer Assessment of…
This Quality Advisory summarizes the basic approaches of, and provides more resources to understand, the three report cards that will be released this spring Hospital Compare star ratings for the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) patient experience survey,…
To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their families.
At an AHA-sponsored briefing today on Capitol Hill, hospital leaders called for changes in Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Michael Langberg, M.D., senior vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, said hospitals shouldn’t be “…
A new AHA TrendWatch report calls for refinements in Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) that achieve the goal of reducing readmissions without unfairly penalizing hospitals.
AHA letter to Representative James Renacci expressing support for H.R. 1343, the Establishing Beneficiary Equity in the Hospital Readmission Program Act of 2015.