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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, June 22, 2010
The advent of Medicare’s value-based purchasing program next year is going to present significant challenges for hospitals and hospitalists. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) will be holding back 10% of hospital payments. The top 10% of hospitals that achieve high scores on a composite measure combining core measures, HCAHPS, and readmission rates will receive full payment. The next 40% of hospitals will get a portion of the holdback. The bottom half of hospitals will get nothing and will be losing 10% of Medicare revenue. Many of these hospitals would be forced to close, as they are barely surviving now. . .Read more of this post by Richard Rohr, MD, MMM, FACP, FHM, on www.MedicalStaffLeader.com.
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