Safety-net hospitals are more likely than others to fare poorly under Medicare’s value-based purchasing program.
Or so concludes a new study published in the journal Health Affairs.
Researchers examined the impact of the addition of patient mortality measures to the program in 2014, and according to the abstract of the new study,
We found that safety-net hospitals were more likely than other hospitals to be penalized under the VBP program as a result of their poorer performance on process and patient experience scores. In 2014, 63 percent of safety-net hospitals versus 51 percent of all other sample hospitals received payment rate reductions under the program.
See the new study “Safety-Net Hospitals More Likely Than Other Hospitals To Fare Poorly Under Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing” here, on the Health Affairs web site.