Medicare's New Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Is Likely ...

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 | Posted by Health Affairs By Health Affairs

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Medicare?s new hospital pay-for-performance program for all acute care hospitals will begin in October 2012. It will be the largest Medicare quality improvement initiative for hospitals to date. Using 2009 data on hospital performance, we calculated hospital performance scores and projected payments under the new program for all eligible hospitals. Despite differences across hospitals in terms of performance, expected changes in payments were small, even for hospitals with the best and worst performance scores. Almost two-thirds of hospitals would experience changes of just a fraction of 1 percent

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Medicare?s New Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Is Likely To Have?

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Source: http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/09/04/medicares-new-hospital-value-based-purchasing-program-is-likely-to-have/

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