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 ...

Using Hospital Cost Reports and the Hospital Compare website, CMS can encourage greater provision of charity care and enable the general public and local communities to understand and monitor ...

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 ...

Patients and family members can now compare the quality of providers, facilities and health plans associated with inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals through the Centers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many hospitals penalized for readmissions were given readmission grades of “no different” or “better” than the national rate on the Hospital Compare website. Objectives: To (1) compare the 2015 ...

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, ...

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 ...