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Are the Updated CMS Hospital Star Ratings Reliable Measures?

July 18, 2022 - The new CMS Hospital Star Ratings methodology, introduced in 2020, is leaving smaller, rural, and critical access hospitals in a lurch, as the new methodology makes for more unpredictable star ratings, according to a new analysis from KNG Health commissioned by the American Hospital Association. That volatility, which CMS said it did not anticipate...

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