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Medicare Star Rating System for Nursing Homes Fails Patients

Medicare Star Rating System Not An Accurate Measurement of Nursing Home Quality The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has offered a Medicare star rating system, in the style of hotel ratings, for nursing homes for the past five years. Only one-fifth of the United States’ 15,000 nursing homes achieve a 5-star rating from Medicare, suggesting that the rating system has exclusive … [Read more...]