Overview

The Official Website for the Medicare Hospital Value-based Purchasing Program

This website will be CMS' official source of information about the Hospital Value-based Purchasing (HVBP) Program for hospitals, clinicians, and other stakeholders who share CMS' commitment to transforming the quality of hospital care by realigning hospitals' financial incentives to do so. 

Check back often for more resources to help your organization launch this ground-breaking new program.

To learn more about what the HVBP Program is, and how it can impact you, please read the links within and outside CMS, below.

National Provider Call: FY 2013 Hospital VBP Dry Run

On Tuesday, February 28, 2012, CMS will host a National Provider call for hospitals from 1:30 - 3:00 pm EST. During this call, CMS will discuss the HVBP FY 2013 Dry Run. Pre-registration for this call is required. To learn how to register, click the "Invitation" link in the "Downloads" section, below. 

Slides for the call are also available in the "Downloads" section, below.

FY 2013 Hospital VBP Dry Run

In February and March 2012, CMS will be conducting a Dry Run of the FY 2013 Hospital VBP Program. As part of the Dry Run, CMS will create hospital-specific performance reports that simulate the FY 2013 Program for each hospital to review. The simulated reports will employ hospital data from prior years to construct each hospital's baseline period and performance period scores. To prepare providers for interpreting the Dry Run simulated report, the National Provider Call on February 28, 2012, will discuss a sample report that shows what hospitals can expect when they receive their own reports.

Special Open Door Forum: Hospital VBP FY 2013 Program

On Wednesday, July 27, 2011, CMS hosted a special Open Door Forum on the Hospital VBP. This forum will focus on understanding the finalized proposals for the FY 2013 Program, under which performance and quality of care factor into how much Medicare pays hospitals. This ODF is particularly timely for hospitals, since the period of performance for the FY 2013 program began on July 1, 2011.

To read the slide deck CMS used during this forum, please see the "Downloads" section, below.

CMS Final Rule for FY 2014 Hospital VBP Program

On November 1 , 2011, CMS released its final rule for the FY 2014 Hospital VBP Program as part of the Agency's Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule. See the "Links Inside CMS" and the "Links Outside CMS" for more information about the rule, including the provisions specific to Hospital VBP. This final rule was published in the Federal Register on November 30, 2011.

Reliability Analysis of Hospital VBP Measures

CMS engaged Mathematica Policy Research, an independent contractor, as part of its efforts to help shape the Hospital VBP Program. To provide background for CMS' policy decisions, Mathematica analyzed the reliability of selected measures of hospital quality that will be used for Hospital VBP, focusing on the relationship between measure reliability and the length of the discharge period. In this context, "measure reliability" is defined as the extent to which variation in the measure is due to variation in the quality of care rather than random variation due to the sample of cases observed.

To read Mathematica's analysis, please click the link in the "Downloads" section, below.