title: Hospital value-based purchasing (VBP) program: measurement of quality and enforcement of quality improvement.
abstract: VBP program is a novel medicare payment estimatin tool used to encourage clinical care quality improvement as well as improvement of patient experience as a customer of a health care system. The program utilizes well established tools of measuring clinical care quality and patient satisfaction such as the hospital IQR program and HCAHPS survey to estimate Medicare payments and encourage hospitals to continuosly improve the level of care they provide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy Services, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, USA. katarzyna.szablowski@hhchealth.org
authors.forename: Katarzyna M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Szablowski
mesh_terms: D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States; D062505:Value-Based Purchasing / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards