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 ...

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 ...

The Commonwealth Fund has updated its hospital compare website, WhyNotTheBest.org, according to a Healthcare IT News report. The hospital compare website allows users to compare hospitals side-by-side ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration has folded eight of its existing healthcare comparison tools into a single website with the intention, they said, of becoming more user friendly. The Centers for Medicare & ...

Washington, DC - The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has added hospital-specific 30-day risk-adjusted mortality numbers for MI, heart failure, and pneumonia, derived from Medicare ...

The World-Herald looked at 20 measures of quality out of more than 100 on the Hospital Compare website, which is overseen by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. DEATH RATE, HEART ...