The hospitals’ efficiency strategies could include ensuring that ORs start on time to prevent back-ups and encouraging physicians to write discharge orders in the morning so patients can be released in a timely manner.
The program will be strictly voluntary for physicians and will adjust data to account for those with more seriously ill patients.
CMS will be evaluating the three-year project to determine whether it should be replicated nationwide.
Read the New Jersey Hospital Association’s release on the New Jersey gainsharing pilot.
