New Tools And Initiatives Announced By The Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • A Quality Care Finder - Medicare beneficiaries can go online and access all Medicare's Compare tools, with information on nursing homes, hospitals and plans.
  • Hospital Compare Website - now updated with information on how hospitals rate for outpatient care, surgical infections.

    Also tells you how each outpatient is treated for suspected heart attack, whether proven therapies that reduce mortality are used. Also includes 30-day mortality rates and 30-day readmission rates for inpatients with heart attack, pneumonia and heart failure. Three full years of claims data are compared.

    Also includes 10 measures related to patient experience with hospital care.