Medicare and Medicaid

Aurora Health Care Top Quality System in Nation in Medicare, Premier Healthcare Alliance Pay-For-Performance Project

Published in Blood Weekly, July 3rd, 2008

Aurora Health Care is the top performing health system in the country in a national Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Premier healthcare alliance pay-for-performance project. The initiative rewards hospitals for delivering higher quality care in five major clinical areas.

Aurora Health Care has been one of the top performing health care systems since the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration project's inception four years ago. The initiative focuses on improving the quality of patient care in congestive heart failure, heart attack, pneumonia, heart bypass surgery, and hip and knee replacement.

In the Year 3 results that were just...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2008-07-03)

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