Performance Measures news from FierceHealthcare
NewsHospitals need better ranking for mortality, readmissions
Following a study that found hospital rankings and mortality rates are statistically imprecise and based on chance comes new research that two hospital ranking methods are only moderately correlated Read more...
Inconsistent outcome measures hurt hospital payments
The move towards increased healthcare transparency has pushed hospitals to publically report adverse events. Yet the methods used to measure outcomes isn't standardized, leading to inaccurate quality Read more...
CMS to turn hospital performance data public
In a move to enhance transparency in the healthcare system, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will make hospital and doctor performance data available to the public. Under new rules Read more...
ACOs could lead to more robust performance metrics
It's taking longer than we expected for CMS to draw up some more specific ACO regulations. While you wait--don't hold your breath--and take a look at some of the information the Feds are digesting on Read more...
Hospital quality of care improves, but weak spots persist
The quality of care in U.S. hospital is up, according to a report released Wednesday by the Joint Commission. Still, while hospitals achieved 90 percent or better performance on many individual Read more...
Medicare hands out $12M in hospital quality bonuses
The 230 hospitals that took part in the CMS/HQID value-based purchasing project raised their overall quality by an average of 17.2 percent during the fourth year of the project on delivery of 30 Read more...
Illinois hospital data finally goes online
At long last, Illinois will begin publishing hospital performance data on a state-run website. We say "at long last" because the laws requiring the reports were passed a whopping five years ago, in Read more...
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