CMS Releases Overall Hospital Star Ratings; Hospitals Upset

By Michelle M. Stein / July 27, 2016 at 5:36 PM
CMS released the overall hospital star ratings on the Hospital Compare site Wednesday (July 27), emphasizing consumer groups' desire for the information and the outreach to hospitals undertaken by the agency following the original delay of the star ratings' publication. Hospitals, however, are still upset. The new overall star ratings take into account 64 already-existing quality measures collected by CMS, and summarize those into a quality rating of one to five stars. Some of the 64 measures are based on...

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