On January 22, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added star ratings to the Dialysis Facility Compare (DFC) website, with a one- to five-star rating assigned based on performance on nine quality measures. CMS plans to update the star ratings annually beginning in October 2015. CMS also announced plans to add the dialysis facility Standardized Readmission Ratio (SRR) to the data available on the DFC website, although it will not be included in the star rating at this time.
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