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CMS awards $7M to top performers in P4P program
CMS has announced that it will award a collective $7 million this year to the 112 top performing hospitals in its ongoing pay-for-performance project with Premier. The best performer, Sacred Heart Read more...
AHA says CMS hospital quality measures aren't ready
As things stand, hospitals soon will have to report on 72 quality measures (up from 30) if they want to receive full Medicare reimbursement. However, most of the new quality measures proposed by CMS Read more...
Medicare releases volume, customer satisfaction data
For the first time, Medicare has released volume and payment information for a list of selected conditions, along with the results from its new consumer satisfaction survey, the Hospital Consumer Read more...
CMS P4P program shows improvements
Hospital costs and mortality rates are going down under CMS's pay-for-performance project, according to a new analysis. Under the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration project, which began in Read more...
Seattle-area healthcare "checkup" finds deficiencies
A Seattle-area health alliance has conducted what it calls a "community checkup," examining care for more than 1.6 million patients--and concluded that performance was below current standards on many Read more...
Unclear on how hospital data affects decisions
While public policy is very much in favor of providing detailed data on hospital performance and quality, there's little evidence to suggest that this data actually affects patient decisions, Read more...
Progress slow on hospital data in IL
When advocates vent over the slow adoption of consumer-driven healthcare spending, one place they should look is Illinois. The problems encountered there in becoming a more consumer-driven health Read more...
Critical-access hospitals not part of CMS quality program
Raising some hackles, CMS has made the decision to exclude critical-access hospitals from its Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting program. The program, which kicks off in April 2008, will Read more...
CMS program would base hospital pay on performance
CMS is proposing a new quality-reporting program which would cut Medicare payments to hospitals, but give money back if the hospitals performed well on the agency's quality measures. The new Read more...
Senate prods CMS on value-based purchasing, SCHIP
Senate leaders are pushing to get a pending report from CMS regarding hospital value-based purchasing and another on the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Senators Max Baucus (D-Montana) and Read more...
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