{"id":2646,"date":"2016-04-20T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:56:13","slug":"medicare-delays-plans-for-new-star-ratings-on-hospitals-after-congressional-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Delays Plans For New Star Ratings On Hospitals After Congressional Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Bowing to pressure from the hospital industry and Congress, the Obama administration on Wednesday delayed releasing its new hospital quality rating measure just a day before its planned launch.<\/p>\n<p>The new \u201coverall hospital quality\u201d star rating aimed to combine the government\u2019s disparate efforts to measure hospital care into one easy-to-grasp metric. The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services now publishes more than 100 measures of aspects of hospital care, but many of these measures are technical and confusing since hospitals often do well on some and poorly on others. The new star rating boils 62 of the measures down into a unified rating of one to five stars, with five being the best. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/medicare-delays-plans-for-new-star-ratings-on-hospitals-after-congressional-pressure\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Breaking+News&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=28684416&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--St0viK_lwIOJmWwDX9H1UiV9G7nax-s3V8_5A4IYPN0EHJL7TbWryoYd7X35hHI2YXJZaPiA79RXx4yLeo6utTw_AEQ&amp;_hsmi=28684416\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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