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Cypress Healthcare Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Office of Local and Rural Health Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Rural Health Policy National Rural Health Association Stratis Health (Minnesota QIO) Stroudwater Associates Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center

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American Hospital Association Association of American Medical Colleges  Catholic Health Association Federation of American Hospitals National Association of Children’s Hospitals & Related Institutions North Carolina Hospital Association South Dakota Hospital Association Voluntary Hospital Association

Amsterdam Memorial Hospital, Amsterdam, NY Baptist Health System of East TN, Knoxville, TN Bleckley Memorial Hospital, Cochran, GA  Crenshaw Community Hospital, Luverne, AL Fairchild Medical Center, Yreka, CA Foote Memorial Hospital, Jackson, MI Franklin Medical Center, Greenfield, MA  Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA Hacken

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Measure Organizations Collecting/Utilizing Measures   Joint Commission CMS 1 HQA 2 CMS-RHQDAPU 3 Premier 4

This appendix builds on the summary of P4P design principles and recommendations presented in Chapter 1 of this report. Here we present and summarize the P4P design principles established by 26 organizations representing a variety of stakeholders, including purchasers, health care providers, policy organizations, accreditation organizations, healt

  What is the scope of outpatient hospital services, and which of these services could be initially targeted for performance measurement and potential reward?   Are there programs currently under way to align reimbursement with value-based purchasing (VBP) in the outpatient hospital setting?

  How can hospital P4P be integrated into the Medicare purchasing environment?   What is the evidence of the impact of P4P programs on changing provider performance?   What features are necessary for the sustainability of programs?

  What hospital-quality public reporting systems are currently available, and what is the evidence of their use and impact? What features (in terms of both design of the report and publicity associated with the report) of those systems are associated with greater impact?   How do private and state purchasers address the policy issues with w

What types of incentives, financial or non-financial, currently exist or are under consideration (e.g., financial, public recognition, public reporting, confidential peer comparisons, systems support)?   How effective are different types of incentives at influencing provider behavior?   Should incentives be based on thresholds, improvemen

  What data collection, data management, reporting infrastructure, and data outreach were required to implement existing P4P programs (e.g., sampling methodology, storage capacity)?   How do current P4P programs address data collection issues, including sampling and minimizing burden, such as                   

  Define the set of services provided in the outpatient hospital setting to identify what could be measured and potentially rewarded.   What measures of performance (e.g., clinical effectiveness, efficiency, patient experience, care coordination/transitions) are currently being used for   both inpatient and outpatient hospital care in pra

  What are the goals of existing pay-for-performance (P4P) programs and demonstrations in the hospital setting?   What should Medicare’s goals be for P4P in the hospital setting?   What is the most effective way to transition from pay-for-reporting (P4R) to P4P? What assistance should CMS offer to providers in the   implementation o

This appendix lists the complete set of design issues that were identified by ASPE and CMS as being of interest for exploring through the environmental scan work.

Mounting cost pressures and substantial deficits in the quality of care within the U.S. health care system have led policy makers to consider options for system reform to drive improvements.  Value-based purchasing is one reform option being examined and tested by payers in the public and private sectors, and it includes both financial (e.g., P4P

The key recommendations that hospitals had for anyone considering designing and implementing a P4P program were as follows: 

Among Premier hospitals that were voluntarily participating in PHQID, we found broad agreement that their decision to participate reflected a desire to “get in at the start to hopefully shape it” and a recognition that “P4P is coming, and it is a way to gain experience.” Some of the Premier hospitals that were eligible to participate but h