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CMS Retiring Original Medicare Compare Site Tools on Dec. 1st

In early September, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the launch of Care Compare on Medicare.gov, which streamlines the agency’s eight original health care compare tools. These individual Medicare Compare tools – for nursing homes, home health agencies, hospices, hospitals, dialysis centers, doctors, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and long-term care hospitals – will be retired on Dec. 1st, ending the transition period.

Care Compare’s new design is intended to make it easier to find the same information contained in the original Medicare Compare tools and to give patients and caregivers one user-friendly place to find cost, quality of care, service volume, and other CMS quality data to help make informed health care decisions. Instead of having to search through many compare tools, users can enter Care Compare to locate information about nursing homes, home health agencies, hospices, and other health care providers.

According to CMS, this transition does not change how the agency will be measuring quality, and it will continue to improve Care Compare and the Provider Data Catalog (PDC) based on stakeholder and consumer feedback. The PDC provides access to interactive and downloadable CMS datasets.

Member organizations that have included links to individual Medicare Compare websites in their materials may want to revise these links to reflect the new Care Compare site.

Contact: Dan Heim, dheim@leadingageny.org, 518-461-2934