GAO: Modest effects from Value-based Purchasing program

Editor's Note

A new Government Accountability Office report shows that hospital performance on most quality measures was improving before the Affordable Care Act’s Hospital Value-based Purchasing (VBP) program began in 2012 and has not noticeably changed since then, according to the AHA News.

Most inpatient prospective payment system hospitals eligible for VBP received a bonus or penalty of less than 0.5% of Medicare payments in each year of the program.

Hospitals' performance on most quality measures was improving before the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program began in October 2012 and did not noticeably change during the first two years of the VBP Program, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.