The majority of hospital leaders indicated the measures reported on Hospital Compare influence quality improvement efforts, but they also reported concerns over the clinical meaningfulness and ...

CMS has publicly released hospital volume and payment data along with the results of the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care. The details ...

Medicare’s seven-year public reporting initiative for hospitals, Hospital Compare, had no impact on reducing death rates for two key health conditions and just a modest effect on a third. That’s the ...

Dear Carol: My wife and I are on Medicare, which allows us to go to any hospital we choose. We're aware that people our age are more likely to be hospitalized for procedures than younger people. We're ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, D.C. – U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, today announced the launch of Hospital Compare, a new digital tool designed to help patients ...

A website sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that lets people find hospitals in their area based on their medical issues and required surgical procedures. The Hospital ...