HQID in the news
First, do no harm; Modern Healthcare; 3/28/11:
Aurora Healthcare discusses its participation in the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration, a collaborative project led by CMS and Premier. HQID is the foundation for the CMS' recently proposed value-based purchasing project.
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Validating P4P improvement: The data is in; Healthcare Informatics; 2/2/11:
Richard Bankowitz, M.D., chief medical officer with the Premier healthcare alliance, discusses whether pay-for-performance programs can be useful across all types of hospitals, particularly those that care for impoverished and disadvantaged populations.
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CMS releases value-based purchasing incentive plan; HealthLeaders Media; 1/11/11:
Blair Childs, senior vice president with Premier healthcare alliance, explains how Premier's HQID initiative has improved the quality of care patients receive.
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Duke University Health System receives awards as part of Premier's HQID program;
The Herald Sun; 12/21/10:
After being named a top performer in Premier healthcare alliance's HQID program, Duke University Health System receives monetary awards from CMS.
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Hospitals should plan now for value-based purchasing, which may be a game changer;
AIS Health; 8/11/10:
Blair Childs, senior vice president with Premier, discusses how Premier's HQID program became the model for value-based purchasing and what hospitals can expect.
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Health reform pilot projects look to transform healthcare; HealthLeaders
Media; 1/15/10: In one of the projects – known as the Premier Hospital Quality
Incentive Demonstration Project – 250 hospitals in 33 states were evaluated, and it was
determined that "transparency plus payment incentives works," says Blair
Childs, senior vice president of public affairs for the Premier healthcare alliance, a sponsor of the program. "How can you be against testing ideas?"
Childs asked. "That's only way we're going to make healthcare work."
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Results from the first 4 years of pay-for-performance; Healthcare
Financial Management Association; 1/8/10: Susan DeVore, president
and CEO of Premier, explains that results from the nation’s largest
hospital-based pay-for-performance project suggest that value-based
purchasing could be an ideal model for healthcare payment reform.
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Advancing Quality scoops prestigious award; NHS North West Web site;
December 2009: Advancing Quality, the United Kingdom's first
hospital-based pay-for-performance (P4P) effort, was honored at the 2009 HSJ
Awards, taking home the top award for "Using Data to Improve Care." Run by
the NHS North West, Advancing Quality utilizes Premier's Hospital Quality
Incentive Demonstration (HQID) P4P project with the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) as a model for improving patient care in the North
West region of England.
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A long way to go; Modern Healthcare; 12/7/09: Premier's
six-year-long Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project was
conducted in partnership with the CMS. The program shows that providers,
focused on process improvement, can bring about systematic improvement, says
Susan DeVore, Premier's president and CEO.
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Pay-for-performance healthcare reimbursement catching on;
Pittsburgh Business Times; 11/13/09: Medicare is conducting a
pay-for-performance demonstration project with Premier involving several
medical conditions, and the agency has indicated that future increases in
all hospital reimbursements will be tied to improvements in clinical
performance.
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Demos show value in value-based purchasing; AHIP Web site;
10/13/09: There is no substitute for putting your money where your mouth
is. In multi-hospital project demonstrations and individual medical centers,
performance-based incentives are working. Take Premier healthcare alliance,
for example. In conjunction with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS), the alliance has conducted a value-based purchasing
demonstration project on hospital quality incentives.
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Cape Fear Valley recognized; The Fayetteville (NC) Observer;
10/12/09: Cape Fear Valley was recently named a top performer in the
clinical areas of heart failure and hip and knee surgeries by the Health
Quality Incentive Demonstration, a pay-for-performance project sponsored by
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Premier healthcare
alliance.
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Can pay-for-performance work in health care? You bet.; BNET;
9/23/09: The doctors and nurses at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish
Health System always figured they did a great job caring for the 5 million
people living in their service area. But in 2003, the medical workers agreed
to take part in a first-of-a-kind ongoing study to test the
pay-for-performance model on a few core groups: those treating heart
patients, pneumonia cases, and people with hip or knee replacements. All
told, 275 hospitals are taking part in this national study, the Hospital
Quality Incentive Demonstration. The Premier health care alliance, which is
running the whole thing with CMS, analyzed data from 1.1 million patients
and estimated that this single pay-for-performance study had saved the lives
of 2,500 heart attack patients in its first three years.
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Texas Health hospitals receive financial awards for quality;
Nurse.com; 9/21/09: The 12 Texas Health hospitals participating in
the Premier-CMS Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration pay-for-performance
project will receive 56 awards totaling $363,801. Each of the hospitals
attained or exceeded quality benchmarks in one or more areas of care
measured in the project.
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Government pays north Texas hospitals to perform; WTVT CBS 11
Dallas/Fort Worth; 9/1/09: The heated debate over healthcare reform
may find a compromise in a pilot "pay for performance" program that's been
quietly running for six years. Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Oak Cliff
is one of 250 hospitals nationwide, participating in the program that began
in 2003. Texas Health Resources has 12 hospitals currently taking part in
the pilot program.
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Pay for performance is gaining ground; Dallas Business Journal;
8/28/09: The so-called pay-for-performance model, also known as
value-based purchasing, is a system that seeks to slow spending by offering
financial incentives to hospitals, physicians and other providers that meet
certain performance measures for quality and efficiency. Now, all eyes are
turning to lessons learned from a pay-for-performance demonstration project
being conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and a group
of about 250 hospitals nationwide. Among those participating locally are
Arlington-based Texas Health Resources and Dallas-based Methodist Health
System.
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Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen receive financial awards;
Allen (TX) American Star; 8/27/09: Texas Health Presbyterian
Hospital Allen has received three performance awards as measured by a
national quality incentive project. Texas Health Allen and other Texas
Health hospitals across North Texas will receive financial awards from the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for performing well in the
fourth year of the national program.
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Two rural hospitals say award doesn't matter in pay for performance
success; HealthLeaders Media; 8/26/09: It isn't every day that
rural hospital officials eagerly discuss their abysmal practice scores in
crucial care areas like heart failure or hip and knee surgery. But Cleveland
Regional Medical Center in Shelby, NC, and United Hospital Center in
Clarksburg, WV, now wear their low rankings almost like war medals. That's
because that poor performance is now history. Today, four years later, the
facilities have improved their care of patients so dramatically in four
important categories, they've become innovators for other hospitals
throughout the country.
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Good care pays off at 3 hospitals; The Charlotte (NC) Observer;
8/25/09: American medicine seems to be based on the notion that more
tests mean better health care. But a 4-year-old federal project is finding
success – including better outcomes and cost savings – with a different
strategy. Three Charlotte-area hospitals participating in the program
recently received cash awards for consistently meeting nationally recognized
standards of care when treating patients in three categories: heart disease,
pneumonia, and knee and hip replacement surgery. Gaston Memorial Hospital in
Gastonia, Stanly Regional Medical Center in Albemarle and Cleveland Regional
Medical Center in Shelby are among 250 hospitals in the
"pay-for-performance" project, sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services and Premier.
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Demo derby - CMS quality initiatives find support...if pay's OK; Modern
Healthcare; 8/24/09: Hospitals and physicians say they’re in favor of the
growing number of CMS demonstrations to improve quality – they just want to
make sure they get reimbursed fairly if and when these demos are put into
practice. Last week, the agency reported glowing results of three of its
quality demonstration projects, one for large physician practices, one for
small and solo physician practices, and one for hospitals, with plans to
launch new demonstrations that focus specifically on gain-sharing between
doctors and hospitals.
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Quality: It's about better healthcare; The New Health Dialogue Blog;
8/21/09: Tom Emswiler of The New Health Dialogue blog writes, "A test
program now in its fourth year has shown how health reform is about making
the system better and saving lives. And it can work. Hospitals that do a
great job get rewarded. Those with a poor performance, get penalized.
Premier, Inc., released the results of year four of their landmark Medicare
demonstration project this week. You might remember last year I blogged
about year three, one of the first instances of a pay-for-performance
initiative enforcing financial penalties on low-performing providers. I even
got a tiny mention on Modern Healthcare. Year four again brought good news
about higher quality."
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Gaston Memorial achieves elite status in improving quality of care;
Gaston Gazette (Gastonia, NC); 8/21/09: Eleven years ago, as many as
98,000 Americans were dying each year because of medical mistakes, at an
estimated annual cost of $29 billion. That figure was based on a 1998 report
by the Institute of Medicine, and it alarmed people who had more faith in
the performance of health care professionals. But it also caught the
attention of industry leaders who realized something had to change. Out of
that surfaced a 2003 pilot program that offers cash rewards and national
recognition to hospitals for improving care in five clinical areas. And the
results of that pay-for-performance plan, released last week, show that
Gaston Memorial Hospital has been a top performer among 263 participating
hospitals in 36 states.
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Presby Plano receives financial award for performance; Star Local
News (Plano, TX); 8/20/09: Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano
received a financial award for quality performance measured by a national
quality incentive project. Texas Health Plano received $27,089, including
six performance awards from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in
the fourth year of the national program.
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Positive outcomes from federal P4P demos build case for change;
Healthcare Finance News; 8/18/09: Federal pay-for-performance
demonstrations continue to back what the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services is calling a strong case for changing the way hospitals and doctors
are paid under Medicare.
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Medicare hands out $12M in hospital quality bonuses;
FierceHealthcare; 8/18/09: The 230 hospitals that took part in the
CMS/HQID value-based purchasing project raised their overall quality by an
average of 17.2 percent during the fourth year of the project on delivery of
30 selected quality measures. As a result of their strong performance, the
group will share $12 million in bonuses.
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Duke hospitals scoop up rewards; The (Raleigh, NC) News & Observer;
8/18/09: Three Duke University-owned hospitals have received nearly
$250,000 in the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project, a
pilot program that rewards hospitals for improving care in five clinical
specialties. The program is seen as one model for helping reform U.S.
healthcare by rewarding hospitals with cash and national recognition for
improving patient outcomes.
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Frederick Memorial Healthcare System picks up eight national awards;
The Frederick (MD) News-Post; 8/18/09: Frederick Memorial
Healthcare System in Frederick, MD, earned eight national awards for quality
care and a reward of $141,340. The hospital has been part of a Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services, Premier healthcare alliance
pay-for-performance project that rewards hospitals for delivering high
quality care in five clinical areas.
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Winter Haven Hospital gets reward for good performance; The
(Lakeland, FL) Ledger; 8/17/09: Winter Haven Hospital in Winter
Haven, FL, is receiving a $29,657 bonus from the federal government for
performing well in 2006-07, hospital officials announced Monday. The
hospital's quality measurements were in the top half of about 250
participating hospitals for treating Medicare patients who had heart
failure, pneumonia, bypass surgery or hip-knee orthopedic surgery.
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Texas Health Resources, Methodist Health System win cash awards for
quality service; The Dallas Morning News; 8/17/09: The federal
government will award $430,000 to two North Texas hospital systems today for
delivering high-quality medical care. Arlington-based Texas Health Resources
won $364,000 and Dallas-based Methodist Health System won $66,000 in a
program designed to test a theory that paying hospitals for quality instead
of the quantity of services improves healthcare and ultimately reduces
costs.
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Rush rewarded by CMS for high quality healthcare; The Meridian Star;
8/17/09: Rush Foundation Hospital has been named a top performer in a
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Premier healthcare alliance
value-based purchasing (VBP) project that rewards hospitals for delivering
high quality care in five clinical areas.
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Medicare test pays for hospital performance; The Wall Street
Journal; 8/17/09: A pilot project by Medicare that links hospital
payments to the quality of care has helped prevent infections in pneumonia
patients and cut death rates in heart-attack patients, according to data
released. Some lawmakers see the experiment, which began in 2003, as a model
as they debate ways to overhaul the nation's healthcare system. In the four
years ended Sept. 30, 2007, the hospitals saw about 4,700 fewer deaths among
heart-attack patients than if they hadn't been participating in the program,
said Premier Inc., the healthcare alliance that is Medicare's partner on the
project. That was among more than 30 quality measures in which hospitals
scored higher, Premier said. The lesson is that "financial incentives can
increase quality of care," said Tim Love, director of the research office at
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that
manages Medicare.
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