Dive Brief:
- Last week, CMS for the first time posted quality data gathered from inpatient psychiatric facilities to its Hospital Compare website.
- The Hospital Compare website will now include data for quality measures collected from 1,753 inpatient psychiatric facilities. The data was gathered between October 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013.
- The data include how many hours patients spent in physical restraint and seclusion, and the percentage of cases at which facilities both created post-discharge continuing care regimens and passed that information on to the patient's provider.
Dive Insight:
Transparency in prices of services, level of quality of care and customer satisfaction are available, but often, they are compiled by outside vendors that don't use the same definitions of quality and outcomes. With CMS doling out the data, however, there is the opportunity for the the data be be more internally consistent.