Dialysis Patient Citizens recently reported on their efforts to respond to the CMS 5-star Rating System. Under this system, the Mayo Clinic, for example, got a 1-star rating. Obviously this is not a good measure of patient feelings or experience. Rather, it is a very flawed system that uses measure which result in a prestigious provider getting a poor rating with other centers with poor service may get a high, or 5-star, rating.
I wrote about this a while back when CMS announced they were doing this 5-star rating system. And, in fact, I’ve written about this a couple times. But here’s the latest news about this issue…
Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC) has taken the lead in seeking improvements to the Dialysis Facility Compare star rating system. Under the current methodology, all dialysis clinics across the U.S. are ranked against one another, with stars assigned by dividing the facilities into five tiers. Under this system, the bottom 10 percent are given one star, and those in the next twenty percent (11th percentile to 30thpercentile) given two stars.
DPC objects to this methodology for several reasons…
Read more at Dialysis Patient Citizens…
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