Data Briefs
Date of this Version
11-12-2015
Abstract
Improving value is one of the central aims of recent and ongoing health care reform. In our last LDI/INQRI Brief, we reviewed the evidence of the role of nurses in increasing the value of health care. In this companion brief, we dig deeper into the three reimbursement strategies that Medicare uses to align hospital financial incentives with quality of care, and we calculate the potential effects of nursing-sensitive quality indicators on hospital payments.
Document Type
Brief
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords
nursing, hospitals, medicare
View On LDI Website
http://ldi.upenn.edu/brief/how-nursing-affects-medicare%E2%80%99s-outcome-based-hospital-payments
Date Posted: 02 September 2016