As Online Ratings Grow, Your Online Reputation Matters More

We can add a few more data points to the growing list of online ratings of health care provider organizations. As 2017 wrapped up, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added 2016 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) data and measure-level star ratings to their Physician Compare website. While PQRS data was available in the past, star ratings were added for physicians in December 2017 (see CMS Adds PQRS Data, Star Ratings To Physician Compare Website).

CMS is implementing the star ratings based on the Achievable Benchmark of Care (ABC™) methodology to develop a benchmark. This means that . . .