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www.medicare.gov/care-compare/
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Learn more about the types of providers.
Learn about Hospice Care - Both PrePlanning as well as How to Access it When You Need It.
https://compassionandchoices.org/news/understanding-and-accessing-hospice-care/
This website can help you pick hospitals, nursing homes, renal care facilities.
www.medicare.gov/care-compare/
Not sure what type of provider you need?
Learn more about the types of providers.
Learn about Hospice Care - Both PrePlanning as well as How to Access it When You Need It.
https://compassionandchoices.org/news/understanding-and-accessing-hospice-care/
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Updated Data for Dialysis Facility Care Compare (DFCC) on Medicare.gov Now AvailableThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pleased to announce that new data about dialysis facilities are available on Dialysis Facility Care Compare on Medicare.gov—the website where beneficiaries, families, and health care providers can view and compare quality data about dialysis facilities. CMS uses these data, organized into a series of measures, to create two-star rating systems that help ensure safety, quality, and transparency for dialysis facilities and that help beneficiaries make educated decisions about where to get their dialysis treatments.
What’s in the July 2024 Data Refresh?
With the July 2024 data refresh, these measures for dialysis facilities were updated with data from October 2022 - September 2023:
Updated Data for Dialysis Facility Care Compare (DFCC) on Medicare.gov Now AvailableThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pleased to announce that new data about dialysis facilities are available on Dialysis Facility Care Compare on Medicare.gov—the website where beneficiaries, families, and health care providers can view and compare quality data about dialysis facilities. CMS uses these data, organized into a series of measures, to create two-star rating systems that help ensure safety, quality, and transparency for dialysis facilities and that help beneficiaries make educated decisions about where to get their dialysis treatments.
What’s in the July 2024 Data Refresh?
With the July 2024 data refresh, these measures for dialysis facilities were updated with data from October 2022 - September 2023:
- Adult and child patients who had enough waste removed from their blood during hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis
- Adult patients who had too much calcium in their blood
- Hemoglobin management (Downloadable Data Only)
- Phosphorus concentrations in the blood (Downloadable Data Only)
- Adult patients who received treatment through an arteriovenous fistula
- Adult patients who had a catheter (tube) left in a vein for at least 3 consecutive complete months, for their regular hemodialysis treatments
- Measurement of nPCR for Pediatric Hemodialysis Patients
- Patients who were on the kidney or kidney-pancreas transplant waiting list
Doctors and Clinicians:
Additional Procedures Data Now Available on Medicare.gov Compare ToolAs part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) ongoing effort to inform patients and caregivers about clinicians’ experiences, CMS has added new procedures to the utilization data on the Medicare.gov compare tool’s profile pages for doctors and clinicians.
In January 2024, CMS added the first procedure volume data file with information for 12 procedures publicly reported on Medicare.gov compare tool profile pages for doctors and clinicians:
The “Utilization (Procedure Volume) Data Published on the Compare Tool on Medicare.gov July 2024” fact sheet (PDF, 386.64 KB) on the Care Compare: Doctors and Clinicians Initiative page provides the full list of procedures and background information about CMS’ reporting of procedure volume data. The current procedure volume data file is available as part of the doctors and clinicians datasets.
If you have any questions about public reporting for doctors and clinicians on the Medicare.gov compare tool, contact the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Service Center by email at [email protected], by creating a QPP Service Center ticket, or by phone at 1-866-288-8292 (Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. ET).
People who are deaf or hard of hearing can dial 711 to be connected to a Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) Communications Assistant.
For Palliative Care:
Additional Procedures Data Now Available on Medicare.gov Compare ToolAs part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) ongoing effort to inform patients and caregivers about clinicians’ experiences, CMS has added new procedures to the utilization data on the Medicare.gov compare tool’s profile pages for doctors and clinicians.
In January 2024, CMS added the first procedure volume data file with information for 12 procedures publicly reported on Medicare.gov compare tool profile pages for doctors and clinicians:
- Hip replacement
- Knee replacement
- Spinal fusion
- Cataract surgery
- Colonoscopy
- Hernia repair – groin (open)
- Hernia repair (minimally invasive)
- Mastectomy
- Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
- Pacemaker insertion or repair
- Coronary angioplasty and stenting
- Prostate resection
- Upper endoscopy
- Arthroscopy – upper extremity
- Arthroscopy – lower extremity
- Varicose vein ablation
- Laminectomy/laminotomy (lumbar)
- Lower limb revascularization
The “Utilization (Procedure Volume) Data Published on the Compare Tool on Medicare.gov July 2024” fact sheet (PDF, 386.64 KB) on the Care Compare: Doctors and Clinicians Initiative page provides the full list of procedures and background information about CMS’ reporting of procedure volume data. The current procedure volume data file is available as part of the doctors and clinicians datasets.
If you have any questions about public reporting for doctors and clinicians on the Medicare.gov compare tool, contact the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Service Center by email at [email protected], by creating a QPP Service Center ticket, or by phone at 1-866-288-8292 (Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. ET).
People who are deaf or hard of hearing can dial 711 to be connected to a Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) Communications Assistant.
For Palliative Care:
- https://getpalliativecare.org/
- CAPC's website features clear, comprehensive palliative care information for patients and families. Resources include the downloadable handout titled 'Palliative Care: What You Should Know,' available in English and Spanish.