Medicare payment demonstration makes strides in patient care
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, January 29, 2007
Second-year results from CMS' hospital value-based purchasing demonstration project show substantial improvement in quality of care, leading to incentive payments totaling nearly $8.7 million to 115 top-performing hospitals, the agency announced Monday.
Participants in the Premier Hospital Quality Improvement Demonstration reported significant improvement in quality of care across five clinical focus areas measured by more than 30 nationally standardized and widely accepted quality indicators.
The average improvement in the project's second year was 6.7 percentage points, for total gains of 11.8 percentage points over the project's first two years.
"CMS has been considering the integration of quality and payment systems as a way to maximize the value of Medicare payments," said CMS Acting Administrator Leslie V. Norwalk, Esq. "These latest results provide one more piece of solid evidence that pay-for-performance works."
Click here to read CMS' news release.
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