Which San Angelo hospitals have been naughty or nice, according the the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS)?
Medicare published a list of hospitals receiving bonuses or penalties from two extrinsic motivation programs, Value Based Purchasing and Hospital Readmissions.
Shannon Medical Center gets a .22% bonus, while San Angelo Community Medical Center receives an extra .15% under the Value Based Purchasing initiative.
The Readmissions program only issues penalties. Shannon avoided this lump of coal, but SACMC was awarded a .38% Medicare penalty.
Overall, CMS Santa left Shannon a .22% increases in Medicare payments, while Community received a -.23% lump of coal.
Medicare: Grinch or Santa?
Ginch--Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, Mangled up in tangled up knots.
Santa--But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
It's the sharpened blade of reward/punishment. Medicare wants the public to believe it's rewarding good providers. If that's the case, why would all these "bonuses" add up to an average .15% payment reduction across all Texas hospitals. The aim is Grinch-like, to save money.
Unfortunately, it gets worse. Next up is 30% of hospitals cheating to get the reward. That's the rate CEO's backdated stock options to maximize their income. Surely, doctors and nurses are as smart as corporate executives.
It is not up to the medical staff. It is in the control of hospital non-medical administration who have to keep the hospital running.
ReplyDeletePlus the Tea Partiers in the Texas Legislature have lost federal funding by imposing their “morals” on everyone.