Hospital Compare: CMS Suspends Display of Hospital-Acquired Conditions Data

By AHA, Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), AHRMM
Quality advisory in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announcement that it has suspended plans to add data on hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) to Hospital Compare, citing an error in the agency's data file used to calculate the HAC measures.

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