[{"innerBlocks":[],"name":"core\/freeform","postId":83,"blockType":{"name":"core\/freeform","keywords":[],"attributes":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"providesContext":[],"usesContext":[],"selectors":[],"supports":{"className":false,"customClassName":false,"reusable":false},"styles":[],"variations":[],"apiVersion":3,"title":"Classic","description":"Use the classic WordPress editor.","category":"text"},"originalContent":"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to provide consumers with a simplified and consistent online experience to make it easier for them to find and compare healthcare providers.CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced on Thursday that the agency is planning to combine and standardize its eight separate Compare tools on Medicare.gov\u2014Hospital, Nursing Home, Home Health, Dialysis Facility, Long-term Care Hospital, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, Physician and Hospice)\u2014to enable consumers to better differentiate providers. \u201cWe are working on new improvements to Medicare.gov to help patients find healthcare providers in different settings across the care continuum,\u201d writes Verma in a blog, noting that CMS plans to launch the centralized online comparison tool later this year.

In addition, she envisions the consolidated platform also serving the \u201cneeds of industry stakeholders who search data that are important to them.\u201dVerma contends that although the existing eight Compare tools \u201care among the most popular and used sections of the Medicare website, each one functions independently with varying user interfaces that make them difficult to understand and challenging to navigate.\u201dTo address those shortcomings, CMS is developing a new Medicare Care Compare site on Medicare.gov that will enable beneficiaries to easily access information about providers and care settings, including quality data.\u201cWe are also working to develop an improved companion portal that Medicare researchers and stakeholders can use to access the more detailed data that are important to them,\u201d according to Verma, who says all datasets will be made available via an application programming interface. \u201cThis new Provider Data Catalog will reside on CMS.gov,\u201d adds Verma. \u201cIt will have an improved interface and intuitive search features to allow users to easily search and download CMS\u2019 publicly reported data, better serving stakeholders who use the interactive and downloadable datasets like those currently found on data.Medicare.gov.\u201dThis spring, CMS is planning to launch both Medicare Care Compare and the Provider Data Catalog as part of a \u201ctransition period\u201d that will enable the public to use the new resources alongside the existing tools before they are retired.","saveContent":"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to provide consumers with a simplified and consistent online experience to make it easier for them to find and compare healthcare providers.CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced on Thursday that the agency is planning to combine and standardize its eight separate Compare tools on Medicare.gov\u2014Hospital, Nursing Home, Home Health, Dialysis Facility, Long-term Care Hospital, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, Physician and Hospice)\u2014to enable consumers to better differentiate providers. \u201cWe are working on new improvements to Medicare.gov to help patients find healthcare providers in different settings across the care continuum,\u201d writes Verma in a blog, noting that CMS plans to launch the centralized online comparison tool later this year.

In addition, she envisions the consolidated platform also serving the \u201cneeds of industry stakeholders who search data that are important to them.\u201dVerma contends that although the existing eight Compare tools \u201care among the most popular and used sections of the Medicare website, each one functions independently with varying user interfaces that make them difficult to understand and challenging to navigate.\u201dTo address those shortcomings, CMS is developing a new Medicare Care Compare site on Medicare.gov that will enable beneficiaries to easily access information about providers and care settings, including quality data.\u201cWe are also working to develop an improved companion portal that Medicare researchers and stakeholders can use to access the more detailed data that are important to them,\u201d according to Verma, who says all datasets will be made available via an application programming interface. \u201cThis new Provider Data Catalog will reside on CMS.gov,\u201d adds Verma. \u201cIt will have an improved interface and intuitive search features to allow users to easily search and download CMS\u2019 publicly reported data, better serving stakeholders who use the interactive and downloadable datasets like those currently found on data.Medicare.gov.\u201dThis spring, CMS is planning to launch both Medicare Care Compare and the Provider Data Catalog as part of a \u201ctransition period\u201d that will enable the public to use the new resources alongside the existing tools before they are retired.","order":0,"get_parent":{},"attributes":[],"attributesType":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"dynamicContent":""}]

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