Monday, November 28, 2005

CMS - National Implementation of Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the final Hospital CAHPS (HCAHPS) survey instrument.

The intent of the HCAHPS initiative is to provide a standardized survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring patients’ perspectives on hospital care.

HCAHPS can be viewed as a core set of questions that can be
combined with a broader, customized set of hospital-specific items.

Once HCAHPS is fully implemented its results will be publicly reported on the Hospital Compare website