Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration

Launched in October 2003, the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) pay-for-performance project was designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals were effective at improving the quality of inpatient care. Approximately 250 hospitals—small/large, urban/rural, teaching/non-teaching facilities—across 36 U.S. states participated in the demonstration.[1][2]

Results

Over the first three years of the project (2003–2006), participating hospitals raised overall quality by an average of 15.8 percent[3] based on their delivery of 30 nationally standardized and widely accepted care measures[4][5] to patients in these five clinical areas:

Additional research using the Hospital Compare[6] dataset for April 2006 to March 2007 showed that HQID participants scored on average 7.48 percentage points higher (91.49 percent to 84.01 percent) than non-participants when evaluating 19 common Hospital Compare measures.[7]

References
  1. ""Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services". U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
  2. "Hospital participant listing Archived 2006-11-19 at the Wayback Machine" (PDF). Premier, Inc.
  3. "Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Fact Sheet Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine" (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
  4. "HQID Quality Measures". U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
  5. "The Premier HQID Clinical Conditions and Measures" (ZIP file). U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
  6. "Hospital Compare dataset". U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
  7. "CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Archived 2008-09-24 at the Wayback Machine". Premier, Inc.
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