CMS Hospital Compare System of Star Ratings and Surgical Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Surgery for Cancer: Do the Ratings Matter?

Rittal Mehta; Anghela Z. Paredes; Diamantis I. Tsilimigras; Ayesha Farooq; Kota Sahara; Katiuscha Merath; J. Madison Hyer; Susan White; Aslam Ejaz; Allan Tsung; Timothy M. Pawlik

doi:https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-08088-y

doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-08088-y

CMS Hospital Compare System of Star Ratings and Surgical Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Surgery for Cancer: Do the Ratings Matter?

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Annals of Surgical Oncology3.70

Volume: 27, Issue: 9, Pages: 3138 - 3146

Published: Dec 2, 2019

Abstract

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare star rating system has been proposed as a means to assess hospital quality performance. The current study aimed to investigate outcomes and payments among patients undergoing surgery for colorectal, lung, esophageal, pancreatic, and liver cancer across hospital star rating groups. The Medicare Standard Analytic Files (SAF) from 2013 to 2015 were used to derive the analytic...