Quality & Patient Safety
Reps. Jim Renacci (R-OH) and Kathleen Rice (D-NY) today introduced a bill to delay for at least one year the introduction of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 new hospital star ratings to ensure the ratings are fair and reliable. The Hospital Quality Rating Transparency Act of 2016鈥
Reps. Jim Renacci (R-OH) and Kathleen Rice (D-NY) have introduced a bill to delay for at least one year the introduction of the CMS new hospital star ratings.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released data on the national distribution of overall hospital quality star ratings and by hospital characteristics, including bed size, teaching status, safety-net status, eligibility for Disproportionate Share Hospital payments and鈥
The 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) today announced that Memorial Medical Center, based in Springfield, Ill., has been named as the 2016 recipient of the 黑料正能量 Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize.
The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges, America鈥檚 Essential Hospitals, and Federation of 黑料正能量s today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to share additional information with hospitals and the public about how accurately its overall hospital quality star鈥
The AHA July 7 and three other national hospital groups called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to examine the 鈥渟erious flaws鈥 in the agency鈥檚 hospital quality 鈥渟tar ratings鈥 methodology.
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Starting in fiscal year 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes to no longer use the results from three pain management questions in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey in determining hospitals鈥 value-based purchasing program scores,鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 approach to overall hospital quality star ratings appears to have several shortcomings, according to a new analysis by an expert in econometrics, commissioned by the AHA.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today awarded $26 million in grants through 2020 to five academic medical centers conducting research to prevent healthcare-associated and antibiotic-resistant infections as part of the agency鈥檚 Prevention Epicenters Program.