RevCycle Intelligence July 20, 2020
Value-based incentive programs in Medicare did not improve hospital-acquired infection rates and may have disproportionately penalized safety-net hospitals, a recent study shows.
Two of Medicare’s value-based incentive programs did not improve the levels or trends of certain hospital-acquired infections, potentially widening the gap between safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals, according to a recent study.
The study recently published in JAMA Network Open found that little, if no, improvement in targeted hospital-acquired infection rates among both safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals enrolled in the Preventing Avoidable Infectious Complications by Adjusting Payment study, which participated in mandatory reporting to the National Healthcare Safety Network from January 1, 2013, through June 30, 2018.
These hospitals participated in both the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program (HACRP) and...