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CMS Adjustments to HCAHPS Data

August 29, 2019

One of the goals of HCAHPS is to produce fair comparisons of hospitals; to that end, there are two adjustments that CMS applies to your data before scores are publicly reported on Hospital Compare: a patient mix adjustment (PMA) and a mode adjustment.