CMS Reports
The year Hospital Compare was replaced by Care Compare.
What is 2020?
The number of domains in the Vizient Quality & Accountability Scorecard (Q&A)
What is 6 (Mortality, Safety, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Patient-Centeredness, and Equity)?
CSMC is categorized under this hospital cohort for the Q&A
What is the Comprehensive Academic Medical Center?
The number of individual indicators in the PSI-90 composite
What is 10?
Publishes hospital rankings as “America’s Best Hospitals,” to identify the medical centers in various specialties
What is the US News & World Report?
A value-based purchasing program that reduces payments to hospitals with excess readmissions.
What is the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP)?
HCAHPS composite with the lowest performance over time.
What is Discharge Information?
In the 2021 and 2022 Q&A, this measure was made informational only in the rankings driven by uneven shifts across hospitals on inpatient elective procedure volumes
What is the total hip and knee (THK) complication rate measure?
The acronym HCAHPS stands for this
What is Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems?
Summarizes a variety of measures across 5 areas of quality into a single star rating for each hospital
Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (Overall Star Rating)?
The acronym HAC stands for this, as in the HAC Reduction Program.
What is Hospital-Acquired Condition?
In the Equity domain, the three groupings evaluated for statistically significant differences in performance rates are gender, race and
What is socioeconomic status?
Vizient service lines are defined by this
What are Medicare severity diagnosis-related groups (MS-DRGs)?
The 4 measures publicly reported on the DRA HAC are: Foreign Object Retained After Surgery, Blood Incompatibility, Air Embolism, and...
What is Falls and Trauma?
This measure in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is assigned the highest standard weight
What is PSI-90?
These quality measures were developed specifically to allow an electronic health record (EHR) system to capture, export, calculate, and report measure data.
What are Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs)?
Colors on the heat map for performance on measures within the Vizient domains, Mortality, Efficiency, Safety, Effectiveness, and Patient Centeredness are based on this method of scoring.
What is the z-score?
In the Vizient Q&A, organizations are grouped by their overall score into five categories by this type of rating.
What are star ratings?
In the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) CMS assesses a hospital’s performance relative to the performance of other hospitals within the same peer group. Peer group assignment is based on this.
What is proportion of hospitals' dual-eligible stays?
The information on hospital performance collected through this voluntary and annual survey is unique and assesses hospital safety, quality, and efficiency based on national performance measures.
What is the Leapfrog Hospital Survey
In the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program, this rate determines the achievement and improvement points for the conditions/procedures: AMI, COPD, HF, PN, and CABG.
What is the Survival Rate?
The three revisit types used for the excess days measure are acute care (inpatient), ED, and
What is observation?
Performance on Vizient Complications is reported quarterly in this report.
What is the Quality and Safety Management Report (QSMR)?
The regulating agency for Safety & Quality Indicators - Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) - Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) - Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDIs) - Composite Scores (PSI 90, IQI 90, IQI 91)
What is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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An online resource for patients to search for top-rated doctors or hospitals, read what other patients have to say about them, and book an appointment.
What is Healthgrades?