Modern Healthcare | New CMS Star Ratings Ignore Socio-Economic Factors

Assessing CMS Star Ratings

In a December issue of Modern Healthcare, SullivanCotter helps to analyze how the inconsistent application of peer groups between CMS’s new star ratings and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction program are creating sizable discrepancies in reported performance. By not risk-adjusting hospitals by peer groups based on their dual-eligible population in the latest preview of the CMS star ratings, hospitals with the largest percentage of dual-eligible stays fared worse than others in the readmissions category – hurting their overall star rating.

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