Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration
Launched in October 2003, the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration 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.
Results
Over the first three years of the project, participating hospitals raised overall quality by an average of 15.8 percent based on their delivery of 30 nationally standardized and widely accepted care measures to patients in these five clinical areas:- acute myocardial infarction
- coronary artery bypass graft
- heart failure
- pneumonia
- hip and knee replacement