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Patients treated in P4P pilot hospitals live longer
Quality Improvement Monitor, June 20, 2008
The more than 1.1 million patients treated in five clinical areas at hospitals participating in a CMS/Premier healthcare alliance pay-for-performance project are living longer and receiving recommended treatments more frequently.
More than 250 hospitals participating in the CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project have raised overall quality by an average of 15.8% over three years based on their delivery of 30 nationally standardized and widely accepted care measures to patients in five clinical area, Premier said in a press release this week.
Improvements in quality of care saved the lives of an estimated 2,500 heart attack patients during the first three years of the project, according to an analysis of mortality rates at hospitals participating in the project. Patients also received approximately 300,000 additional recommended evidence-based clinical quality measures, such as smoking cessation, discharge instructions, and pneumococcal vaccination during that same timeframe.
CMS will award bonus payments of more than $7 million to 112 top-performing hospitals for year three of the HQID project.
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