Value over volume: Value-based purchasing brings financial incentives for 13 core quality measures

摘要

Aiming to align federal payments to hospitals and physicians with the quality of care patients receive, the US Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new program that will change Medicare reimbursements for the 3,500 hospitals across the country. The sweeping changes, known as value-based purchasing and authorized by President Obama's Affordable Care Act, will begin in fiscal year 2013 and alter the way in which an estimated $850 million is allocated to hospitals.