The Leapfrog Group is expanding its Ambulatory Surgery Center Public Reporting Program to include nearly 4,000 ASCs in the U.S. The expanded program will use CMS public reporting, accreditation ...
Editor’s note: This story was updated to include comment from Tenet Healthcare. A federal judge in Florida has sided with five hospitals that challenged the biannual grading system of the health ...
A Florida judge’s ruling in a lawsuit against The Leapfrog Group found that the nonprofit safety watchdog punishes nonparticipating hospitals by giving them a lower grade. Leapfrog last week ...
After a federal judge ordered The Leapfrog Group to remove safety grades it assigned to five Florida hospitals, Leapfrog told Becker’s March 16 it has pulled several grades for U.S. hospitals that ...
An independent hospital rating organization has taken down grades of a South Florida health system after a judge ruled the group unfairly scored hospitals in semiannual patient safety reports. The U.S ...
A Gibson Dunn team led by Mary Beth Maloney, Sydney Scott, and Lee Crain secured an injunction on behalf of five South Florida community hospitals against The Leapfrog Group, the nonprofit that ...
Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. What began as a spat between five Florida hospitals and a safety ratings group has grown into a ...
The judge ordered Leapfrog Group to remove its safety grades for the five hospitals and stop using its current grading methodology. The five hospitals are Good Samaritan Medical Center, St. Mary's ...
A federal judge ruled The Leapfrog Group's hospital grading methodology was unfair and deceptive, ordering the nonprofit to remove grades for 5 Palm Beach County hospitals from its website WEST PALM ...
A Florida judge has ordered a national watchdog to scrub poor patient safety grades for several South Florida hospitals, describing the scoring methodology as misleading and harmful for patients and ...
Nonprofit watchdog organization The Leapfrog Group must remove the safety grades it assigned to five Tenet Healthcare hospitals after a federal judge ruled the grades were deceptive and unfair. Judge ...
A federal judge has ruled the grading approach taken by the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit, was unfair and deceptive. Leapfrog's chief executive characterized the ruling as a "shocking attack" on First ...