Premier P4P demo extension
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS approves a three-year extension to the Premier hospital pay-for-performance demonstration project, Premier announces Feb. 22. The hospital group recently reported positive second-year results from the program, which awards Medicare incentive payments to the highest performing hospitals based on certain quality-of-care measures (1"The Gray Sheet" Feb. 5, 2007, p. 19). The extension provides flexibility to include additional mortality and patient safety measures and clinical conditions, and will evaluate new incentive models that pay hospitals that reach a quality threshold or show the most improvement. CMS has signaled an interest in expanding the P4P demonstration to hospitals beyond the Premier network on a voluntary basis...