New Medicare payment strategy to reward hospitals for high-quality care
Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 01:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Medicare will pay more to hospitals that score well on a series of measures that gauge patient care and pay less to those that don't hit the quality benchmarks.The Obama administration issued a final regulation to reward hospitals that provide high-quality care, the first in a series of steps that are designed to fundamentally transform the way that the federal government pays for healthcare.