After a three-month delay and negative chatter from many stakeholder groups, CMS released its Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating program in full Wednesday on its Hospital Compare website. Here are ...

Have you wondered how your area hospitals stack up in terms of the quality of care they provide? Emergencies obviously call for rushing to the nearest hospital. But when you have time to plan, it is ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to boost the effectiveness of Medicare's fee-for-service program by making it easier for consumers to choose the hospitals they use based on the ...

CMS launched its Hospital Compare website to make public data more transparent and help patients “find hospitals and compare the quality of their care.” However, the way the website shows the data ...

With the proliferation of public quality reporting, Health & Human Services' Hospital Compare website is causing hospitals and health systems to hone in on new improvement targets, such as the patient ...

In January 2011, hospitals were required to begin reporting central line infections to the government in order to receive their full payment update for 2013. The CMS mandated that hospitals report ...

Medicare's Hospital Compare website now includes data on how many patients are readmitted within 30 days of undergoing heart catheterization procedures, such as angioplasty. Reporting the data on ...

In furtherance of its efforts to improve quality through transparency, CMS announced updates to its Hospital Compare and Nursing Home Compare websites on July 19, 2012. The agency has added two new ...

The Commonwealth Fund has updated its hospital compare website, WhyNotTheBest.org, with information on central line-associated bloodstream infections and county-level data on hospital quality. Read ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on February 7, 2012 that its Hospital Compare website now includes data on central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) ...

In July of 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a new overall star rating system on the Hospital Compare website. Almost all hospitals are now rated between one and ...

Have you wondered how your area hospitals stack up in terms of the quality of care they provide? Emergencies obviously call for rushing to the nearest hospital.