Report rates hospitals

On Their Heart Treatment
“For most of its history, Medicare has been paying for services but not for results.” “Without showing true differentiation among most hospitals, we aren’t serving consumers, purchasers or even the hospitals themselves”. link

The federal government has gingerly stepped back into rating the care delivered by the nation’s hospitals, releasing for the first time in nearly two decades a list of hospitals where heart patients are most likely to die.link
NYT 22.06.07