The City Council passed legislation supported by Mayor Eric Adams aimed at cracking down on sky-high hospital costs on Thursday, The Post has learned. The bill sponsored by Councilwoman Julie Menin (D ...

Suppose you or a loved one needed to get cardiac bypass surgery. Wouldn’t it be useful to be able to consult one online tool to find and evaluate a surgeon and hospital as well as a nursing home and ...

CMS has publicly released hospital volume and payment data along with the results of the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care. The details ...

Medicare has begun publishing patient safety ratings for thousands of hospitals as the first step toward paying less to institutions with high rates of surgical complications, infections, mishaps and ...

CMS launched its Hospital Compare website to make public data more transparent and help patients “find hospitals and compare the quality of their care.” However, the way the website shows the data ...

Medicare’s seven-year public reporting initiative for hospitals, Hospital Compare, had no impact on reducing death rates for two key health conditions and just a modest effect on a third. That’s the ...