Association Between State-Wide Cardiac Quality Improvement Program and Costs Following Intervention for Coronary Artery Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since 2010, all non-VA hospitals performing cardiac surgeries and percutaneous interventions in Washington State have participated in the Cardiac Care Outcomes Assessment Program (COAP), a data-driven, physician-led collaborative quality improvement (QI) collaborative. Prior literature has demonstrated QI programs such as COAP can avert avoidable utilization such as hospital readmissions. However, it is unknown whether such improvements translate into economic benefits.

Hypothesis

This study compared downstream healthcare costs between patients undergoing cardiac interventions for coronary artery disease (CAD) at hospitals that were and were not participating in COAP.

Methods

Post hoc analysis of Medicare administrative and claims data examined 2.5 million

SUBMITTER: Wong ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11573734 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature