Posts tagged "transparency"

One in five hospices has no quality score, and half of them are not told why

Jul 29, 2026 • • #healthcare #hospice #data-analysis #measurement #CMS #transparency

Medicare publishes a quality score for 5,411 of 6,852 hospices. For the other 1,441 the page is blank. Recent certification explains 587 of them. The rest were open for the entire measurement window, and 735 carry a footnote that does not fit a claims-based measure.

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One in five hospices has no quality score, and half of them are not told why

California published the same year's detention data three times and the numbers differ sixfold

Jul 28, 2026 • • #healthcare #california #data-analysis #measurement #transparency #public-records

Three documents on the state health department domain all present themselves as the FY2019-20 involuntary detention report. The statewide count is 17,736 in one, 29,117 in the next, and 117,620 in the third. None of them says it revises another.

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