AMDA’s Stance on CMS Red Hand Alert Icon

Angie Szumlinski December 2, 2019 News

The AMDA has recently written a letter to CMS regarding their stance on the new red hand consumer alert icon on Nursing Home Compare. You can read the letter by downloading the file below.

HealthCap recently published a podcast about the CMS “red hand” campaign.

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