Hospital Compare is one of Medicare’s most popular web tools with about one million page views each month, according to CMS. CMS has already recruited over 6,000 partners, including more than 3,000 hospitals, in this effort, which aims to reduce preventable harm in hospitals by 40 percent by 2014. In 2011, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius launched the Partnership for Patients initiative, which seeks to reinvent American healthcare delivery in ways that keep patients from being injured or getting sicker in a care system designed to heal them. The announcement builds on HHS’s efforts to make American healthcare safer. “This information allows CDC and CMS to highlight prevention and pinpoint where more work is needed on these avoidable infections.” “Today, consumers are getting access to data provided to hospital leaders and clinicians to monitor progress in reducing CLABSIs,” said CDC Director Thomas R. These infections prolong hospitalizations and can cause death. Caring for a patient with a CLABSI adds about $17,000 to a hospitalization. Studies show that up to 25 percent of patients who get a CLABSI will die from the infection. You can use Hospital Compare to find hospitals and compare the quality of their care. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 2009, there were about 41,000 CLABSIs in U.S. "Including central line-associated bloodstream infections information on Hospital Compare will save lives and cut costs,” said acting CMS Administrator MarilynTavenner in a press release. This step will hold hospitals accountable for bringing down these rates, saving thousands of lives and millions of dollars each year.
HOSPITAL COMPARE INFECTION RATES UPDATE
This section of the MMA authorized CMS to pay hospitals that successfully report designated quality measures a higher annual update to their payment rates. healthcare system.ĬMS said that Hospital Compare will now include data about how often these preventable infections occur in hospital intensive care units across the country. The Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program was originally mandated by Section 501 (b) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003. This was modified by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Affordable Care Act of 2010, which provided that beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2015, the reduction would be by one-quarter of such applicable annual payment rate update if all Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program requirements are not met.Īdditional information on the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program can be found at the links listed below.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services a(CMS) announced Tuesday it will add hospital infection rate data to its consumer website, Hospital Compare.ĬMS said it is adding information on central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), the most serious of all healthcare-associated infections, resulting in thousands of deaths each year and nearly $700 million in added costs to the U.S. The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 increased that reduction to 2.0 percentage points. Initially, the MMA provided for a 0.4 percentage point reduction in the annual market basket (the measure of inflation in costs of goods and services used by hospitals in treating Medicare patients) update for hospitals that did not successfully report. The Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program was originally mandated by Section 501(b) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003. Data for selected measures are also used for paying a portion of hospitals based on the quality and efficiency of care, including the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, and Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Recently, in efforts to improve these numbers, the federal government has worked to tie hospitals' infection metrics with Medicare payments. A staggering 75,000 of them will die during their hospitalization due to the HAI. The data collected through the program are available to consumers and providers on the Care Compare website at. 03:29 PM Each year, some 722,000 hospitalized patients will acquire a serious infection as a result of their care. It is also intended to encourage hospitals and clinicians to improve the quality and cost of inpatient care provided to all patients. Under the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program, CMS collects quality data from hospitals paid under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System, with the goal of driving quality improvement through measurement and transparency by publicly displaying data to help consumers make more informed decisions about their health care.
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