Resumen de Associations Between Hospital Characteristics, Measure Reporting, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings
John O. DeLancey, Jeanette W. Chung, Jeffrey Softcheck
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings in July 2016 to provide consumers a summary rating of hospital performance using measures already reported to CMS.1 Hospitals achieve 1 to 5 stars based on 62 measures across 7 weighted measure groups relating to health care quality: mortality, readmissions, safety, patient experience, efficient use of imaging, effectiveness of care, and timeliness of care.1 To receive a star rating, hospitals must report at least 3 of the 7 measure groups and at least 1 Outcome group (mortality, readmissions, or safety). Within each measure group, at least 3 individual measures must be reported for inclusion of that group. If a hospital does not submit enough measures for a group to be included, the weight from that group is redistributed to the other groups for which the hospital has sufficient data.
