AHCJ just processed almost 10 million records of Medicare payments to providers for 2016, turning it into easy-to-use spreadsheets broken down by state.
In 2016, Medicare paid more than $82 billion in payments to 91 types of providers, including physicians, therapists, ambulance services, surgical centers and more. Continue reading
Hospital inspection records from this year have been added to the searchable HospitalInspections.org website. The site, created and run by the Association of Health Care Journalists, now has 29,428 records of hospital inspection results, covering from January 2011 into March 2018. Most of the records include a detailed report on each deficiency found in hospitals.
The site uses a file from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The site, open to the public, allows searches by keyword, city, state and hospital name.
The Association of Health Care Journalists just updated its HospitalInspections.org website. The site now has 27,985 records of hospital inspection results, covering from January 2011 well into December 2017. Most of the records show details of each deficiency found in hospitals.
AHCJ just updated its version of Medicare inpatient charge data that covers hospitals across the United States.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated its data, showing what hospitals charge Medicare for treatments or procedures. Government data files include bills submitted by almost 3,500 hospitals for inpatient treatments in federal fiscal years 2011 through 2015. Beginning with the 2014 data, all discharges are reported. Prior years (2011 through 2013) are limited to the top 100 most frequently billed discharges. Continue reading
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AHCJ has updated and merged its version of the hospital mortality and readmission data available exclusively to members.
Going back to 2008 for mortality and 2009 for readmission to 2016 for both, journalists can download spreadsheet files to filter and find hospitals with histories of worse or better expected rates of patient outcomes within 30 days of discharge. Continue reading
