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How can I find out if my hospital offers good care for my condition? |
Hospital Compare |
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What was new or different in the March 2008 release of Hospital Compare? |
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What can I do with the information on Hospital Compare? |
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What does the vertical bar with the language "Top Hospitals" and a percentage mean? |
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Why did the heart attack and heart failure measures for LVSD change and what do the changes mean? |
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What do the mortality categories show? |
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What are we committing to regarding the selection and use of standardized quality measures for health care providers? |
Hospital Compare |
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What is the Hospital Quality Alliance? |
Hospital Compare |
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Do hospitals that treat sicker patients have worse death rates? |
Hospital Compare |
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Why are death (mortality) rates for hospitals not shown? |
Hospital Compare |
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How will the private sector interact with the Federal government to coordinate the selection of value-driven health care measures? |
Hospital Compare |
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Why is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posting volume and cost information on Hospital Compare? |
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What are DRGs? |
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How were the 46 DRGs on Hospital Compare chosen? |
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Where does the volume and cost data come from? |
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What does volume mean? |
Hospital Compare |
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What does average Medicare payment to hospitals mean? |
Hospital Compare |
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Is the Medicare payment the same as the amount the hospital charges for its services? |
Hospital Compare |
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Why do Medicare payments to hospitals vary for the same DRG? |
Hospital Compare |
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Do the Medicare payments affect what a person with Medicare pays? |
Hospital Compare |
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Why aren't Critical Access Hospitals' payment and volume information posted on Hospital Compare? |
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What does the national and state 25th Percentile - 75th Percentile range mean? |
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How do the DRGs relate to the quality measures currently displayed on Hospital Compare? |
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Who can use payment and volume information in selecting a hospital? |
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Why use the information on Hospital Compare? |
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