Innovaccer on Wednesday unveiled a free tool to track, compare and analyze hospital performance. Called Hospital Compare, the app analyses research on hospital data sets provided by the Centers for ...

The federal hospital ratings website Hospital Compare may be getting another revamp. After several delays, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Thursday that it has released updated ...

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, ...

Healthcare groups, including the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), are calling for major changes to how the federal hospital rating website ...

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 (CMS) recently released summary "5-star" scores for hospitals on its Hospital Compare website. In advance of the release and since, hospitals have ...

CMS has introduced star ratings based on patient experiences on Hospital Compare to make it easier for consumers to choose a hospital and understand the quality of care they deliver. CMS has ...

Avi Dor ( [email protected]) is a professor of health policy and economics at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., and a research associate ...

Patients have another Internet tool to compare hospitals, and hospitals have another quality metric to parse, thanks to a new set of data being published by Medicare that purports to measure patient ...

CMS updated patient satisfaction survey data on its Hospital Compare website April 28, which included calculating new HCAHPS summary star ratings for hospitals. CMS started assigning hospitals a one ...

Hospital organizations are blaming the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for ignoring their concerns over the Hospital Compare star ratings program. "We are deeply disappointed that we have ...