What quality measures will be used to evaluate hospitals for the Hospital VBP Program?
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has adopted 13 quality measures tracked in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program for the fiscal year 2013. The following table provides these measures:
| Clinical Process of Care Measures Measure Description | |
| Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) | |
| AMI-7a | Fibrinolytic Therapy Received Within 30 Minutes of Hospital Arrival |
| AMI-8a | Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Received Within 90 Minutes of Hospital Arrival |
| Heart Failure (HF) | |
| HF-1 | Discharge Instructions |
| Pneumonia (PN) | |
| PN-3b | Blood Cultures Performed in the Emergency Department Prior to Initial Antibiotic Received in Hospital |
| PN-6 | Initial Antibiotic Selection for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) in Immunocompetent Patient |
| Healthcare-associated Infections | |
| SCIP-Inf-1 | Prophylactic Antibiotic Received Within One Hour Prior to Surgical Incision |
| SCIP-Inf-2 | Prophylactic Antibiotic Selection for Surgical Patients |
| SCIP-Inf-3 | Prophylactic Antibiotics Discontinued Within 24 Hours After Surgery End Time |
| SCIP-Inf-4 | Cardiac Surgery Patients with Controlled 6:00 a.m. Postoperative Serum Glucose |
| Surgeries | |
| SCIP-Card-2 | Surgery Patients on a Beta Blocker Prior to Arrival That Received a Beta Blocker During the Perioperative Period |
| SCIP-VTE-1 | Surgery Patients with Recommended Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis Ordered |
| SCIP-VTE-2 | Surgery Patients Who Received Appropriate Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Within 24 Hours Prior to Surgery to 24 Hours After Surgery |
| Survey Measures | |
| Measure ID | Measure Description |
| HCAHPS | Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey |
