CMS’ Hospital Readmission Reduction Program: What does it mean for your hospital?
1. CMS’ Hospital Readmission
Reduction Program:
What does it mean for your hospital?
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February 1, 2013
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3. It’s All About Money
• Medicare annual spend
– 2010: $525B
– 2020: $922B
• Medicaid annual spend
– 2010: $401B ($271B federal/$130B state)
– 2020: $908B ($561B federal/$347B state)
• Total annual spend
– 2010: $2.64 trillion; 17.6% of GDP; $8,327 per capita
– 2020: $4.64 trillion; 19.8 % of GDP; $13,708 per capita
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4. How We Got Into This Mess
• Providers incentivized by fee-for-service
reimbursement
– Sick care v. health care
– We don’t know what works, so we do it all
• Over-regulation in a futile attempt to prevent
over-utilization and control costs
• Health care as piece work
• Data blind
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5. Evolution of Reimbursement
Bundled
Payments
Fee for
Service
Shared
Savings
Visitor
Symptomatic
Acute Needs
Services & Supplies
Unit Based
No Financial Risk
Patient
Episode
Most Common Conditions
Packaged Treatments
Efficiency Based
Partial Financial Risk
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Partial
Capitation
Global
Payment
Person
Overall Health
Community Health
Characteristics
Manage Well Being
Outcome Based
Full Financial Risk
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6. Two Intertwined Goals
Goals
Make better health
insurance coverage more
available and affordable for
legal residents
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Reform the health care
delivery and payment
system to provide better
care in a more cost-efficient
manner
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7. The Future is Now
• Pay for volume
• No quality
measured
Fee For
Service
Value- Based
Payment
• Quality per
click
• Process
improvement
THEN NOW FUTURE
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• Quality
outcomes of
episodes
• Whole system
improvement
Care
Coordination
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8. The Real Change Drivers
Data is king; HIT/HIE non-negotiable
Quality will be quantifiable
Payment will be based on quantified quality
Demand for quantified quality will drive clinical integration
Successful integration will require high degrees of trust among providers
The building blocks of trust are common purpose and agreed-upon ground rules
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9. Link Payment to Quality
Readmission
reduction
program
Physician
value-based
purchasing
Physician
quality
incentives
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Hospital
value-based
purchasing
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10. Readmission
Reduction Program
• The Affordable Care Act established the basis
for the Hospital Readmissions Program.
– CMS reduced payments to IPPS hospitals with
excess readmissions beginning October 1, 2012
– 30 Day Readmission Measures:
• Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)
• Heart Failure (HF)
• Pneumonia (PN)
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11. Readmission
Reduction Program
• Readmission reductions are based on three years worth of
data
– FY 2013 provider adjustment is based on readmission data
collected from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2011
– Minimum 25 cases to calculate readmission rate
– CMS expects the readmission reduction program to be base
on a rolling three years of readmissions data
– Providers have a 30-day preview period to review their
readmission rates
– CMS posts readmission measures results on Hospital
Compare http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/
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12. Readmission Reduction
Adjustments
• Maximum excessive readmission adjustments are
applied to a provider’s Medicare base rate:
– FY 2013 - 1% reduction
– FY 2014 - 2% reduction
– FY 2015 - 3% reduction
• Readmission results are public information,
therefore, hospitals face negative community
response for excessive readmission rates
Source: Readmission Adjustment factors are based on excess readmission ratios from the performance
period of July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2011, as finalized in the FY 2013 IPPS/LTCH PPS Final Rule.
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13. Readmission Reduction
Adjustments
What does it mean for Alabama
hospitals?
($3,903,338)
Source: Readmission Adjustment factors are based on excess readmission ratios from the performance
period of July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2011, as finalized in the FY 2013 IPPS/LTCH PPS Final Rule.
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14. Quality Counts…
But can you prove it?
1. AMI-2 Aspirin Prescribed at Discharge
2. AMI-7 a Fibrinolytic Therapy Received Within 30
Minutes of Hospital Arrival
3. AMI-8a Primary PCI Received Within 90 Minutes
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of Hospital Arrival
4. HF-1 Discharge Instructions
5. HF-2 Evaluation of LVS Function
6. HF-3 ACEI or ARB for LVSD
7. PN-2 Pneumococcal Vaccination
8. PN-3b Blood Cultures Performed in the
Emergency Department Prior to Initial Antibiotic
Received in Hospital
9. PN-6 Initial Antibiotic Selection for CAP in
Immunocompetent Patient
10. PN-7 Influenza Vaccination
11. SCIP-Inf-1 Prophylactic Antibiotic Received
Within One Hour Prior to Surgical Incision
12. SCIP-Inf-2 Prophylactic Antibiotic Selection for
Surgical Patients
13. SCIP-Inf-3 Prophylactic Antibiotics Discontinued
Within 24 Hours After Surgery End Time
14. SCIP-Inf-4 Cardiac Surgery Patients with
Controlled 6AM Postoperative Serum Glucose
15. SCIP-Card-2 Surgery Patients on a Beta Blocker
Prior to Arrival That Received a Beta Blocker
During the Perioperative Period
16. SCIP-VTE-2 Surgery Patients with Recommended
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Ordered
17. SCIP-VTE-2 Surgery Patients Who Received
Appropriate Venous Thromboembolism
Prophylaxis Within 24 Hours Prior to Surgery to
24 Hrs After Surgery
Clinical
Process of
Care
Measures
70%
HCAHPS
30%
Source: CMS Special Open Door Forum: VBP 2/10/2011
15. HCAHPS Composite Scores
– Communication with doctors
– Communication with nurses
– Pain management
– Cleanliness and quietness of hospital environment
– Responsiveness of hospital staff
– Communication about medicine
– Discharge information
– Overall rating of hospital
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16. Press Ganey Performance Insights 2012
“While the association between performance
HCAHPS and readmission is clear, it’s not causal.
Improving HCAHPS performance will not by itself
lower readmission rates.
Rather, the organizational culture, management and
systems that enable a hospital to perform well on
HCAHPS will also facilitate better performance on
readmissions and other outcomes.”
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17. Readmission Reduction Goal
Patients CAPABLE of managing their own care
Communication
Alignment
Partners
Access
Barriers
Learning
Evaluation
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19. FFS Payment for
Transitional Care Management
• New Medicare payment for post-discharge
transitional care management
• Key elements
– Contact within 2 days of discharge
– Face-to-face visit within 7 (or 14) days
– Non-face-to-face care management services over
30-day period
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20. Transitional Care Management
What does it mean to Alabama hospitals?
+ $23,675,699
Source: Estimated reimbursement is based on the assumption that CMS expects 92% of TCM codes will be billed as non-facility.
2013 Fee schedule amounts are derived from the MAC website. Medicare discharges source 2011 MEDPAR.
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22. Contact Information
Thank you for allowing us to share our thoughts
and expertise with you.
Denise Hall, RN, BSN
Principal
dhall@pyapc.com
Pershing Yoakley & Associates, P.C.
(800) 270-9629
www.pyapc.com
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Kristen Lilly, MHA, RHIA, CPHQ
Manager
klilly@pyapc.com
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