CMS updated its hospital compare site with new patient experience star ratings on July 31.

Four things to know:

1. The summary star ratings are based solely on Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores collected between Jan. 1, 2019, and Dec. 31, 2019. For more information on methodology, click here. 
2. CMS assigned a patient experience star rating to 3,478 hospitals as of July 31.  
3. CMS gave 266 hospitals (8 percent) five stars for patient experience, the highest score a hospital can receive. On the other hand, 85 hospitals (2 percent) received one star.
4. Overall, 1,120 (32 percent) received four stars; 1,479 (43 percent) received three stars and 528 (15 percent), received two stars.

Source: ​https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-experience/cms-updates-patient-experience-star-ratings-4-things-to-know.html

Aug. 11 (UPI) -- For the second day in a row, the United States has reported a daily count of fewer than 50,000 new COVID-19 cases.

According to figures Tuesday from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, there were about 49,500 cases nationally on Monday. Sunday's figure was about 47,000.

​Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) covers a test to see if you have coronavirus (officially called coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19). 

This is the very first agency update we've published in the News portion of our website.
 
This is the area of the website where we're going to be writing brief updates about important news, updates, and other changes within our agency.
 
Some of the things we may share here in the news section are:

• Hiring New Agency Staff
• Winning Customer Service Awards
• Local Charity Events We Attend
• Business Partnerships We Join
• And much more!

 
Stay tuned!