Care quality, safety ‘worse than expected’ during COVID-19 PHE: CMS

Becker's Healthcare February 29, 2024
Molly Gamble

A new CMS report reveals disparities in care quality and patient safety within U.S. hospitals before and during the pandemic, finding “a large proportion of measures had worse than expected performance.”

CMS released its 2024 National Impact Assessment Feb. 28, which is released every three years and evaluates the measures used in 26 CMS quality and value-based incentive payment programs. This edition of the report compares quality measure scores pre-COVID-19 with hospitals’ results in 2020 and 2021, the initial years of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Here are eight findings from the 72-page assessment, which can be found in full here:

1. During 2020 and 2021, a large proportion of measures had worse than expected performance, including...

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