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MU Health Care's Safety Rating Drops to One Star

Nathan Lawrence / KBIA

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has dropped MU Health Care's quality and safety rating to one star of five, from a previous three-star rating.

The decline will result in MU Health Care losing 1 percent of its federal Medicare payments in fiscal year 2019, according to an email sent to hospital staff Thursday by Jonathan Curtright, MU Health Care's chief executive officer.

The payment reduction is based on data collected from 2014 to 2017. The rating reduction is based on performance from 2014 through 2018.

CMS, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, collects safety and quality data from hospitals nationwide that treat patients with access to Medicaid and Medicare. The overall hospital rating "summarizes up to 57 quality measures across seven areas of quality ... into a single star rating for each hospital," according to the quality ratings FAQs page on MU Health Care's website.
 
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