Medicare's new ranking system raises concerns at Harvard-affiliated hospitals

A new ranking system implemented by Medicare, aimed at identifying hospitals with patient safety risks, is generating complaints from HMS teaching hospitals that these assessments provide inadequate representations of the quality of care. Gregg S. Meyer, HMS lecturer on medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Kenneth E. F. Sands, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, are quoted.

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