Medicare Star Ratings Allow Nursing Homes to Game the System

Medicare’s five-year-old rating system to help families select nursing homes relies on unverified, incomplete and often misleading data. [Source]

Origin: nytimes.com

Category: Elder Care

Topics: misleading, often, incomplete, unverified, relies, homes, nursing, select, families, system, rating, five-year-old, Medicare’s, System, Homes, Nursing, Allow, Ratings, Medicare

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