The early effects of Medicare's mandatory hospital pay-for-performance program.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of hospital value-based purchasing (HVBP) on clinical quality and patient experience during its initial implementation period (July 2011-March 2012).

Data sources

Hospital-level clinical quality and patient experience data from Hospital Compare from up to 5 years before and three quarters after HVBP was initiated.

Study design

Acute care hospitals were exposed to HVBP by mandate while critical access hospitals and hospitals located in Maryland were not exposed. We performed a difference-in-differences analysis, comparing performance on 12 incentivized clinical process and 8 incentivized patient experience measures between hospitals exposed to the program and a matched comparison group of nonexposed hospitals. We also evaluated whether

SUBMITTER: Ryan AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4319872 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature