Although patients with a primary mental health condition make up about 10 percent of pediatric hospitalizations, there is little research exploring care quality for these patients in hospital settings ...

A new editorial published in JAMA by Northwestern Medicine ® experts strongly questions the use of several hospital quality measures by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its ...

Rates of potentially preventable hospital admissions and readmissions, which were first envisioned as an indicator of access to timely and appropriate ambulatory care for uninsured patients more than ...

The Measures Application Partnership is considering approximately 500 quality measures to recommend to HHS for inclusion in federal healthcare payment and reporting programs, according to an AHA News ...

Accessing high-quality healthcare in the United States has become increasingly complex. While technological advances have fostered extraordinary innovation in medicine and digital record keeping, the ...

Amino, a San Francisco-based startup that uses claims data to help consumers choose a doctor, announced today that it now has access to Medicare claims data and has been certified by the Centers for ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How a hospital rates in terms of the quality of care it provides does not appear to be closely linked to patient outcomes, according to a study in this week's Journal of ...

The growth and variety of hospital quality measures makes it difficult for payers to determine which are most valuable Improving the Patient Financial Experience Throughout the Patient Journey While ...

1. These are Forbes’ first-ever hospital ratings. Why is Forbes entering this space now? Healthcare quality can vary dramatically among hospitals. The differences between high-quality facilities and ...

Health quality measures are good, but the sheer volume of uncoordinated measures is overwhelming clinicians, hindering the cause of improving care rather than helping it. That’s the point Tom Daschle ...

Reviews of healthcare providers on social media sites like Yelp are filling gaps in traditional ratings programs driven by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, ...

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