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Revised Hospital Star Ratings: Details to Help You Prepare for the April 2021 Public Release

At a Glance As part of the April refresh of Care Compare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to update its hospital overall star ratings.

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.

Star Ratings Follow-Up

This is the second installment of podcasts about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services—otherwise known as CMS—and their Hospital Star Ratings Program. Last time we heard from Akin Demehin and Caitlin Gillooley, who lead AHA’s work on policy regarding quality of care, CMS had proposed several changes to the Star Ratings Methodology. Since then, the agency has finalized some—but not all—of those changes.
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AHA Statement on Star Ratings Update

AHA statement on star ratings update from Senior Vice President for Public Policy Analysis Development Ashley Thompson.

CMS updates overall hospital star ratings

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services updated the overall hospital quality star ratings at Care Compare.
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CMS Issues Hospital Outpatient/ASC Final Rule, Including Maintenance of 340B Cuts

At A Glance The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released the calendar year (CY) 2021 outpatie

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.
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AHA Comments on Outpatient PPS Proposed Rule for CY 2021

AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical center payment system proposed rule for calendar year 2020.