The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its hospital star ratings and an article on Becker's Infection Control and Clinical Quality website lists 12 things to know about them.
CMS released its Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating program on its Hospital Compare website.
Two of the 12 important points, according to the article, are:
• The Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating combines 64 measures that are already public on Hospital Compare into one star rating. The measures fall into seven groups: mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience, effectiveness of care, timeliness of care and efficient use of medical imaging.
• A hospital's rating is only calculated using as many measures for which data is available. That means hospitals' star ratings could be based on as few as nine measures or as many as 64; the average is roughly 40.
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