On June 18, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published new guidance announcing a major change to the way Care Compare will display survey information and the methodology for calculating the ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), Center for Clinical Standards and Quality recently announced upcoming changes to skilled nursing facility (“SNF”) profiles on the Medicare Care ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services didn’t set out to make waves this summer, but a technology upgrade is having unexpected ripple effects. The federal agency recently announced a temporary ...
July’s Care Compare refresh worsened survey scores for 60% of nursing homes thanks to a new scoring methodology, but analysts predict consumers won’t initially notice much difference in Five-Star ...
CMS has analyzed data from more than 5,000 hospice agencies for its latest update to Care Compare. Care Compare, a consumer search tool for home health, hospice and other Medicare-reimbursed ...
Opinion
When Falls Are Regulated But Function Is Not: How Measurement Incentives Undermine Post-Acute Care
In postacute care, we have built a quality architecture that treats falls as actionable events and functional decline as expected aging. The resulting safety-without-recovery trade-off is not a ...
Higher Medicaid payment rates are associated with a greater likelihood of receiving 4- or 5-star Care Compare ratings, according to a new study published ...
Lane Regional Medical Center has been awarded a 4-star rating by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the Care Compare website for 2025. This rating places LRMC among 762 hospitals ...
Historic funding cuts to Medicaid in the federal budget bill are set to take effect this fall, fundamentally shifting the U.S. health care system. Meanwhile, a new study finds that the quality of ...
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