News: CMS releases Hospital Compare preview reports
CMS recently made the July 2017 Hospital Compare preview reports available on QualityNet for participating Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR), Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR), and PPS-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting (PCHQR) hospitals and facilities.
The reports will be accessible from April 6 through May 5 by logging into QualityNet.
Reports include discharge-level data, hospital-specific results, and state and national results for the IQR claims-based measures.
Due to problems with the patient safety indicator (PSI) software, the IQR PSI results are not included on the preview reports. CMS anticipates the fiscal year (FY) 2018 PSI results will be available by October 2017, at which point they will be added to the preview report.
The Hospital Compare Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating will be updated in July 2017 using the FY 2017 PSI results and hospital-specific reports.