Star Ratings
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,…
Commenting yesterday on proposed criteria for selecting measures to include in a Hospital Compare star rating system, AHA encouraged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to consider using star ratings for specific measure topics (e.g., heart attack care, patient experience) as opposed…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today added star ratings to the Dialysis Facility Compare website, which are based on nine of the 11 quality measures reported on the website in 2014. The website no longer includes the measures for URR dialysis adequacy and Hemoglobin greater than…
Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Electronic health records technology that has been certified to the 2014 Edition standards and certification criteria will have been tested for enhanced CQM-related capabilities, Eligible professionals,…