Optima Health, a Virginia Beach, Va.-based payer with 450,000 members, received a 4-star quality rating from CMS for its OptimaFit individual and family health plans. The rating is the highest score achieved by a health plan in the state of…
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Here are 75 statistics on demographics of patients spending one or more nights at a hospital based on data from across the United States in the CDC report "Summary Health Statistics: National Health Interview Survey, 2014."
Hospitals in stressed cities — cities with high poverty, unemployment rates, divorce rates and poor health conditions — tend to have lower overall star ratings from CMS than hospitals in less-stressed areas, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.
CMS released its Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating program in July amidst strong criticism from several stakeholders for a variety of issues. Now, a new Health Affairs blog post says patients will find the ratings "confusing at best and misleading at worst."
Most available hospital quality rankings — from Leapfrog, CMS, Healthgrades and others — offer an overall score, meant to represent the quality of care provided overall to all patients at a hospital. However, according to a FairChex whitepaper, those rankings…
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Patients have been inundated with a flood of different hospital quality measures in recent years, including Leapfrog's Hospital Safety Grade, U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals rankings and CMS' Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings. But confusion can set in as…
Seventeen health insurers earned a 5-star rating in U.S. News & World Report's Best Medicare Advantage Plans 2017.
On Thursday, Mount Sinai Health System became the largest academic health system in New York City to post patient experience ratings for its physicians online.
Consumer Reports released new ratings on U.S. hospitals' efforts to prevent Clostridium difficile. It found that around one-third of the more than 3,100 hospitals evaluated received a low rating for C. diff infection control — meaning their C. diff infection rates were worse than the national benchmark.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance released its 2016 Health Insurance Plan Ratings providing information on how Medicaid and Medicare plans performed in regards to consumer satisfaction, prevention and treatment.