American Hospital Association July 31, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 31 updated the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings at its Care Compare website and Provider Data Catalog. CMS assigns the ratings annually and are based on safety of care, readmission rates, patient experience, timeliness of care and mortality rates.
“As expected, this year’s CMS Hospital Overall Star Ratings distribution looks largely like 2023 given that the methodology that hospitals are rated on has remained stable for the last few years,” said Akin Demehin, AHA senior director of quality and patient safety. “Multiple factors could contribute to a hospital experiencing a shift in ratings, including changes to underlying measures used to calculate the ratings, the time periods used to calculate performance and...
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