“The Medicare website will combine its eight separate Compare tools under one combined, standardized and simplified format in the coming months, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.”
“In a blog posting this week, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the new format will launch this spring, and will ‘allow users to access the same information through a single point of entry and simplified navigation to find the information that is currently divided in places like Nursing Home Compare and Hospital Compare…’”
“Currently, Medicare uses eight separate Compare tools – Hospital, Nursing Home, Home Health, Dialysis Facility, Long-term Care Hospital, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, Physician and Hospice – on Medicare.gov to find and compare doctors…”
“Verma said CMS is also developing an improved ‘companion portal’ that Medicare researchers and stakeholders can use to access the more detailed data, that will also launch this spring…” Read the full article here.
Source: CMS to Combine, Standardize Compare Tools – By John Commins, January 24, 2020. HealthLeaders Media.
