In the latest Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hospital star rating system, 483 received the highest ranking of 5 stars. This compares to 429 hospitals that received 5 stars in 2022. More than 75% of the 4,654 hospitals in the Care Compare Dataset for 2023 received 2, 3 or 4 stars.
The nonprofit organization is digitizing standards for quality care called HEDIS measures using CQL language, says Edward Yurcisin, NCQA’s chief technology officer.
While data breaches affect all industries, healthcare suffers the largest financial hit, according to data compiled by the Ponemon Institute. This year, the average cost of a data breach reached an all time high of $4.4 million. That’s a 2.3% increase from 2022, and taking the long-term view, the average cost has increased 15.3% from […]
Subsidiaries of Franklin, Tennessee-based Community Health Systems have agreed to sell three Florida hospitals to Tampa General Hospital in a deal estimated to be worth $290 million, with the transaction expected to close later this year. The hospitals are 120-bed Bravera Health Brooksville in Brooksville, 128-bed Bravera Health Seven Rivers in Crystal River and 124-bed […]