For the first time, providers, payers, and patients now have an enormous searchable database containing documents detailing about 8,000 serious federal safety rule violations—many of which have caused ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will launch a new accountable care organization (ACO) records database that will house personally identifiable information about participants in the ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week it was adding star ratings to its Hospital Compare database, providing for a quick-glance rating system consumers can use when ...

Prior to CMS's release, these documents were available only after members of the public or news media filed Freedom of Information Act or state public records requests. "It was a time-consuming ...