Potential Future Measures for Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program

CMS is considering the following measures for the Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program:

• Spending per Hospital Patient with Medicare - Opens in a new window
• Serious Complications and Deaths - Opens in a new window
• Hospital Acquired Conditions - Opens in a new window
• Emergency Department Wait Times - Opens in a new window
• Heart Patients Given a Prescription for Drugs called Statins at Discharge. (AMI-10:  Statin Prescribed at Discharge)
• Central Line-associated Blood Stream Infection
• Surgical Site Infections
• Immunization for Influenza
• Immunization for Pneumonia
• Temperature Management for Patients after Surgery (SCIP-Inf-10 Post-operative Normothermia)