Applied health economics and health policy
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Appl Health Econ Health Policy · Feb 2018
Association Between Medicare's Mandatory Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program and Cost Inefficiency.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act instituted pay-for-performance programs, including Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP), designed to encourage hospital quality and efficiency. ⋯ The estimated coefficients for the outcome quality variables suggest that future determination of HVBP payment adjustments, which will depend solely on mortality rates as measures of clinical care quality, may not only be aligned with increasing healthcare quality but also reducing healthcare costs.