CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID)
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"The main point is that the majority of hospitals
in the HQID project, even those on the lower end of the scale, improved their
quality of care across the board with respect to reliable use of scientifically
based practices. Hospitals want to offer high quality care; sometimes they just
need to be pointed in the right direction. The HQID project has offered
hospitals a guideline to improve their patient care. This study was conducted
with a very strong clinical, quality and cost database from Premier. Such a
database helps you to study your own care and identify opportunities for
improvement."
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP
President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement;
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Healthcare Policy.
Harvard Medical school
Improvements Continue in Year 2 of HQID
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)/Premier Inc. Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) pay-for-performance project is the first national pay-for-performance project of its kind, designed to determine if financial incentives are effective at improving the quality of inpatient hospital care. More than 260 hospitals are voluntarily participating in the project. The HQID project’s foundation for tracking hospitals’ performance is Premier's Perspective™ database, the largest clinical comparative database in the nation.
The CMS announced that second year
results show that patients treated at hospitals participating in Premier's
Inc. pay-for-performance project are living longer and receiving recommended
treatments more frequently. Read complete
news release.
1/26/07 Premier press call (audio
- .mp3, transcript - .pdf)
Results from Year Two (January 2007):
HQID Year 2 spanned the timeframe of Q4 2004 through Q3 2005.
- Quality scores by decile (.pdf)
- List of hospitals in the top 50 percent by condition
- Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration White paper for Year 2 Data (.pdf)
Dramatic & Sustained Improvement
Download the complete Composite Quality Score chart (.pdf)
Results from Year One:
HQID Year 1 spanned the timeframe of Q4 2003 through Q3 2004.
- Quality scores by decile (.pdf)
- List of hospitals in the top 50 percent by condition
- Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration White paper for Year 1 Data (.pdf)