4.6
2022-01-03
The app was updated with new information released by Medicare (CMS) on August 31, 2021. The following updates are included - Hospital General Information, HCAHPS Consumer Ratings, Readmissions, Complications and Deaths, Payment and Value of Care, Healthcare Associated Infections, Outpatient Imaging Efficiency, Nursing Home Ownership, Inpatient Perspective Payment System and Outpatient Perspective Payment System.
Updated to include changes in iOS 15. Bug fixes and performance improvements.
4.5
2021-01-29
The app was updated with new information released by Medicare (CMS) on August 27, 2020. The following updates are included - Hospital General Information, HCAHPS Consumer Ratings, Readmissions, Complications and Deaths, Payment and Value of Care, Healthcare Associated Infections, Outpatient Imaging Efficiency, Nursing Home Ownership, Inpatient Perspective Payment System and Outpatient Perspective Payment System.
4.4.1
2020-06-07
Added outpatient imaging efficiencies for over 4700 hospitals. These measures give you information about hospitals' use of medical imaging tests for outpatients. Examples of medical imaging tests include CT scans, MRIs, and mammograms.
4.4
2020-06-02
Added a list of 15,000 nursing homes and their associated ownership structure.
4.3
2020-05-11
Added functionality to compare payments hospitals receive for the same Diagnosis-related groups (DRG's) for inpatient services and Ambulatory Payment Classifications (APC's) for outpatient services.
4.2
2020-05-05
The app was updated with new information released by Medicare (CMS) on April 22, 2020. The following updates are included - Hospital General Information, HCHAPS Consumer Ratings, Readmissions, Complications and Deaths, Payments and Value of Care and Healthcare Associated Infections.
4.0
2020-03-20
Fixed bug with referral regions in inpatient and outpatient payments.
Implemented previous and next buttons on all detail views to allow stepping through the questions for Consumer Ratings (HCAHCPS); measures in Readmissions, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI), Complications & Deaths and Value of Care; DRGs in inpatient payments and APCs in outpatient payments.
Implemented General Hospital Information button on all detail views.
Implemented map functionality on the General Hospital Information detail view to display the location of the hospital and surrounding area.
Improved app performance.
3.15
2020-02-25
Fixed bugs with footnotes not displaying and inconsistantcies with fields displaying properly in dark mode.
3.14
2020-02-19
The app was updated with information released by Medicare (CMS) on January 29, 2020.
It includes Hospital General Information, Consumer Ratings, Readmissions, Complications and Deaths, Value of Care and Healthcare Associated Infections.
3.13
2019-09-04
The app was updated with information released by Medicare (CMS) on July 28, 2019 and August 28, 2019.
It includes:
- 2017 Inpatient Perspective Payment System (IPPS) which provides information on inpatient discharges for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.
- 2017 hospital-specific charges for select Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) Groups paid under the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS).
- July 28, 2019 Hospital General Information, Consumer Ratings, Readmissions, Complications and Deaths, Value of Care and Healthcare Associated Infections.
3.12
2019-05-26
The app was updated with new information released by Medicare (CMS) on April 24, 2019. The following updates are included - Hospital General Information, HCHAPS Consumer Ratings, Readmissions, Complications and Deaths, Payments and Value of Care and Healthcare Associated Infections.
3.11
2019-03-22
Bug fix - Fixed issue with charges and payments in the Inpatient Payments function.
3.10
2019-03-17
The app was updated with new information released by Medicare (CMS) on February 28, 2019. The following updates are included - Hospital General Information, Consumer Ratings, Readmissions, Complications and Deaths, Value of Care and Healthcare Associated Infections.
3.9
2018-11-09
The app was updated with new information released by Medicare (CMS) on October 31, 2018. The following updates are included - Hospital General Information, Consumer Ratings, Readmissions, Complications and Deaths, Value of Care and Healthcare Associated Infections.
3.8
2018-09-03
The app was updated with information released by Medicare (CMS) on August 15, 2018. The update includes 2016 Inpatient Perspective Payment System Utilization and Payment Public Use File (Inpatient PUF) which provides information on inpatient discharges for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.
3.7
2018-07-30
The app was updated with new information released by Medicare (CMS) on July 25, 2018. The following updates are included - Hospital General Information, Complications and Deaths and
Healthcare Associated Infections.
3.6
2018-06-05
The app was updated with new HCAHPS information released by Medicare (CMS) on May 25, 2018.
3.5
2018-04-29
The app was updated with new information released by Medicare (CMS) on April 25, 2018.
3.4
2018-03-01
Added Medicare payments and value of care measures. The payment measures for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and hip/knee replacement include the payments made for Medicare beneficiaries who are 65 years and older. The measures add up payments made for care and supplies starting the day the patient enters the hospital and for the next 30 days or 90 days for hip/knee replacement. The measures are meant to reflect differences in the services and supplies provided to patients. You can see whether the payments made for patients treated at a particular hospital is less than, no different than, or greater than the national average payment. The payments included in this measure are price-standardized and risk-adjusted.
3.3
2018-02-12
The app was updated with new information released by Medicare (CMS) on January 19, 2018.
3.2
2018-02-07
Added Complications and Death measures. The 30-day death measures are estimates of deaths within 30-days of a hospital admission from any cause related to medical conditions, including heart attack (AMI), heart failure (HF), pneumonia (PN), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and stroke; as well as surgical procedures, including cornary artery bypass graft (CABG). Hospitals’ rates are compared to the national rate to determine if hospitals’ performance on these measures is better than the national rate (lower), no different than the national rate, or worse than the national rate (higher).
3.1
2018-01-19
Added Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) measures - hospital data to the app.
3.0
2018-01-02
Added a list of hospital ratings for the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). HCAHPS is a national, standardized survey of hospital patients about their experiences during a recent inpatient hospital stay.
Added hospital-level results for 30-day readmissions and return days for:
- Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission Rate
- Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission Rate
- RatePneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission Rate
- Rate of readmission after hip/knee replacement
- Rate of readmission after discharge from hospital (hospital-wide)
- Rate of readmission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients
- Rate of readmission for stroke patients
- Rate of readmission for CABG
- Hospital return days for heart attack patients
- Hospital return days for heart failure patients
2.1
2017-09-08
Value Based Purchasing, Inpatient and Outpatient prospective payment system database updated.
2.0
2016-12-01
- Added outpatient Medicare provider utilization and payment data. The data includes estimated hospital-specific charges for select Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) Groups paid under the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS).
-Added hospital ratings and comparison data provided by Medicare. Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) is part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) long-standing effort to link Medicare’s payment system to a value-based system to improve healthcare quality, including the quality of care provided in the inpatient hospital setting.