Record Detail

 
PROGRAM SPONSORSHIP

Formal name of the incentive and/or reward program initiative (if applicable)

Program name Hospital Performance Incentive Program (HPIP)

Program sponsor(s) and parent organization of sponsor(s), if applicable

Program sponsor(s) Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Primary program contact information

Name Dana Safran
Organization Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Email dana.safran@bcbsma.com

Sponsoring organization type

Employer(s) Single employer
Health Plan(s) Multiple health plans

Source of funding associated with program set-up costs

Funding source
Funded by program sponsor(s)

Percent contributed by sponsor and grant organization

% Sponsor 100
Program set-up costs 0

Source of funding associated with program operations costs

Funding source
Funded by program sponsor(s)

Percent contributed by sponsor and by grant organization

% Sponsor 100
Program operations cost 0

Start date & end date of the program

Start Date 01/03/2003
End ongoing

 
PROGRAM SCOPE

Geographic scope of program Massachusetts
Individuals affected by program as a percentage of total population, if known
Employer/commercial health plan- active workers
Employer/commercial health plan- dependents
Employer/commercial health plan- retirees
Medicaid
Medicare
Plan product(s) the program applies to (for plan sponsors only)
HMO
HMO/POS
PPO
Indemnity
Consumer-Driven Health Plan (CDHP)

Direct target(s) of your program's incentives/rewards

Hospital type
General
Academic hospital(s)- American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) member(s)
Hospital unit Individual, System
Consumers- health plan enrollees (for health plan respondents only)
HMO
HMO/POS
PPO
Indemnity
Consumer-Driven Heath Plan (CDHP)
Medicare
Medicaid
Recruitment of program targets
Other
Specify Agreed upon in contract negotiation


PROGRAM PERFORMANCE MEASURES

Clinical/Safety Performance

Inpatient clinical and safety measures included in your program

Measure sources
AHRQ Quality Indicators
JCAHO Core Measures
IHI 5 Million Lives Campaign
Other

Health information technology adoption measures

Adoption of inpatient HIT
Barcoding
Clinical documentation
CPOE
Decision support (e.g., alerts, reminders or point-of-care guidelines)
E-prescribing
Registry functions (e.g. clinical data repository)
Adoption of outpatient HIT
Patient tracking (e.g., managing patient data)
Registry functions tracking (e.g., clinical data repository)
Ambulatory CPOE (ACPOE)
E-prescribing
Decision support (e.g., alerts, reminders or point-of-care guidelines)

Patient-Centeredness

Patient-centeredness measures
Patient-centeredness performance measure sources
HEDIS (non-clinical component)

Health plan performance measures

Performance measure weighting
Does not apply

Data Reliability

Sources of data

Existing or new data Existing data sources, New data collected explicitly for program reporting
Data type
Administrative in origin (derived from claims data)
Self-reported
Data extracting entity
Program target
Data aggregator/analyzer
Program sponsor
Ensures data accuracy Yes
Means of ensuring accuracy
Auditing
Self-attestation as to accuracy


INCENTIVE/REWARD CHARACTERISTICS

Start date & end date of the incentive/reward

Start Date 10/01/2006
End Date 09/30/2007

Scoring used to determine payment

Source of financial payments for meeting performance goals
Current budget redistributed


COLLABORATION CHARACTERISTICS

Phases of program where sought target collaboration
Program design and creation
Program operations
Receives compensation for administrative burden of data collection No


PROGRAM EVALUATION

How the program evaluates its success
Improvements in clinical performance
Sponsor financial return on investment (ROI)
Other types of evaluation

 

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