CMS expands quality data on Physician and Hospital Compare websites

Editor's Note

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on December 10 updated its Physician and Hospital Compare websites to include new data and quality measures.

Among the additions:

• performance scores on preventive care, diabetes, cardiovascular care, and patient safety for approximately 275 group practices and 40,000 individual healthcare professionals
• performance scores on patients’ experiences with some 290 group practices
• measure for the Inpatient Quality Reporting program that shows whether a hospital uses safe surgery practices before administering anesthesia, before incision and closing, and before leaving the OR
• data on catheter-associated urinary tract infections and central line-associated bloodstream infections updated to include on which patient care units the infections occurred.

Date 2015-12-10 Title CMS expands quality data on Physician Compare and Hospital Compare to help consumers choose health care providers Contact go.cms.gov/media CMS expands quality data on Physician Compare and Hospital Compare to help consumers choose health care providers Updates provide more quality metrics for health care professionals and group practices The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is committed to providing current quality performance data that is useful to the consumer.