Public hospitals have the most trouble in performing well on the surgical components of CMS' value-based program, according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
Researchers examined value-based purchasing performance scores from Hospital Compare and the 2009 American Hospital Association annual survey, considering data from 3,030 hospitals.
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Composite surgical performance skills at public hospitals were 15.6 percent lower than at private hospitals. In addition, the means through which hospitals achieved points were different among different designations of hospitals.
The study concluded monitoring the success of mandatory quality programs is necessary to understand how such programs may have differential effects on disparate categories of hospitals.
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