tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 45

HOSPITALS: 'Hospital Compare' Performance Measures Don't Reflect Changes In Your Mortality Rates

CMS may need to go back to the drawing board for your quality measures, study says.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began reporting hospitals' performance measures on its Hospital Compare Web site in an effort to improve quality of care in hospitals. But the quality-of-care measures that hospitals have reported on the Web site have had little impact on hospital-level outcomes, a new study claims.Researchers studied 3,657 acute care hospitals based on performance data they reported on Hospital Compare. The results appear in a report in the Dec. 13 issue of the Journal of...

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