Inclusion of Veterans Health Administration hospitals in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objective

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating, established in 2016, is a summary of publicly available quality information for acute care hospitals. In July 2023, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals became eligible to receive a CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating for the first time. Our objective was to compare performance in quality ratings among VHA and non-VHA hospitals.

Methods

We used the hospital quality measure scores posted to Care Compare on Medicare.gov as of January 2023 as our primary data set. We conducted a pair of analyses to characterize the performance of VHA hospitals compared to non-VHA hospitals: an overall analysis including all rated hospitals, and a matched analysis in which

SUBMITTER: Bagshaw K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11874188 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature