tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 24

Quality of Care: DOLLARS FOR QUALITY

Hospitals could soon collect bonuses from Medicare for delivering high-quality care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services hopes to soon announce a demonstration that would pay more to hospitals that provide better quality care. As reported in the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by CMS sources, hospitals with high quality marks would get a one or two percent bonus added to their regular reimbursements. The measures would focus on patients with eight medical conditions, including stroke, heart attack, hip surgery, and pneumonia. According to the Journal, a hospital might report how quickly pneumonia patients received antibiotics, or how...

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