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CMS updates Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated with 2021 data the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings at its Care Compare website and Provider Data Catalog.

Report: Hospital star ratings methodology remains volatile for smaller hospitals

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ new Hospital Overall Star Ratings methodology preservessome year-to-year stability, but some ratings remain volatile.

Blog: Understanding CMS’ Changes to Hospital Overall Star Ratings

In 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) overhauled the Hospital Overall Quality Star Ratings methodology with the expressed purpose of making ratings more transparent, equitable, stable and predictable.

CMS delays hospital star ratings update until July 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced it will delay updating the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings on the Care Compare website from April until July so it can correct

Puzzling Hospital Ranking Report on Unnecessary Services: Based on Incomplete Data, Omits Important Clinical Details

A recent report from the Lown Institute that ranks hospitals on what they deem to be unnecessary hospital services, tests and procedures attempts to make sweeping conclusions about hospital value based on data that are not only incomplete, but also not current. 

AHA podcast: Go deeper into CMS’ updated hospital star ratings

On this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Akin Demehin and Caitlin Gillooley, who lead AHA’s work on policy regarding quality measurement, and Anthony Weiss, M.D., senior vice president and chief medical officer of Beth Israel-Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, Mass., discuss the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ updates to the hospital star ratings methodology, including what changed, what didn’t and what still needs to.

CMS updates overall hospital star ratings

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services updated the overall hospital quality star ratings at Care Compare.

CMS will not update hospital star ratings, quality data in January

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will not update the overall hospital quality star ratings at Hospital Compare in January to allow time to review public comment and finalize proposed changes to the star ratings methodology, the agency announced.

CMS updates overall hospital star ratings

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services updated the overall hospital quality star ratings at Hospital Compare and data.medicare.gov as part of the quarterly refresh of the website’s data.

NQF panel recommends actions to improve overall hospital star ratings

The National Quality Forum’s Hospital Quality Star Rating Summit today released recommendations to improve the transparency, fairness and usefulness of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings.