In 2005, The Leapfrog Group launched its first rewards program for hospitals. The Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program currently measures hospital performance on five conditions for quality and efficiency using data submitted by hospitals via the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and their data vendors. Hospitals that demonstrate excellence or show improvement along both dimensions are rewarded.

The Leapfrog Group, based on its experience with the current LHRP program and lessons learned through other pay-for-performance projects, is working to develop a next generation hospital incentives and rewards program. The new rewards program will be based solely on data collected through the updated Leapfrog Hospital Survey. The Leapfrog Group has designed the 2008 Survey to lesson the burden of reporting for hospitals and to incorporate the latest research on measures that have the greatest impact on saving costs and improving quality.

Information about the benefits of implementing the Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program is available here.

Stay tuned for more information on the updates to the Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program.