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 ...

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 ...

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 recently announced updates to its Hospital Compare website. CMS provides the Hospital Compare website to give patients, their families and other health care stakeholders information on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hospital Compare users can view a new sepsis care measure under the website’s timely and effective care tab. Users can then compare their hospital’s score to state and national averages. Nationally, ...

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 Department of Veterans Affairs stopped reporting data to Medicare’s Hospital Compare website this summer, despite the fact that it is legally required to do so. Joe Francis, the VA’s director of ...

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.