Hospitals' strategies to reduce costs and improve quality: survey of hospital leaders.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Hospitals in the US operate under various value-based payment programs, but little is known regarding the strategies they use in this context to improve quality and reduce costs, overall or in voluntary programs including Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A).

Study design

A survey was administered to hospital leaders at 588 randomly selected acute care hospitals, with oversampling of BPCI-A participants, from November 2020 to June 2021. Twenty strategies and 20 barriers were queried in 4 domains: inpatient, postacute, outpatient, and community resources for vulnerable patients.

Methods

Summary statistics were tabulated, and responses were adjusted for sampling strategy and nonresponse.

Results

There were 203 respondents (35%), of w

SUBMITTER: Hammond G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11954658 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature