Advisory Board August 5, 2024
CMS recently updated its Hospital Quality Star Ratings on its Care Compare website, with almost 400 hospitals achieving five-star ratings.
Cheat sheet: Medicare Advantage Star Ratings 101
How CMS calculates hospital star ratings
For this year’s ratings, CMS analyzed 46 hospital quality measures across five different groups:
- Mortality (22%)
- Safety (22%)
- Readmission (22%)
- Patient Experience (22%)
- Timely & effective care (12%)
The percentage weights of all the measures are out of 100%. If a hospital had no measures in a certain group, the weighted percentage was redistributed proportionally to the other measure groups.
Depending on the measure, CMS used hospital data collected from July 2019 to March 2023 for its latest rankings. Hospitals’ performance on quality metrics...
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