The insurer’s national Hospital Incentive Program, effective Jan. 1, 2018, pertains to hospitals treating Humana’s commercial members. The program will compensate hospitals based on three key areas: patient experience, patient safety and patient outcomes.
It will also use seven measures like healthcare-associated infection rates, care coordination, palliative care and more to determine performance. The metrics incorporate two care certification programs developed by The Joint Commission.
Ben Lunsford, vice president of value-based strategies at Humana, told Becker’s via email “HIP provides hospitals with an opportunity to participate in a value-based program that recognizes a hospital’s continuous patient improvement efforts via earned annual rate increases.” Earned annual rate increases are based on hospital performance across the previously stated three key areas.
Humana said it will make a separate announcement soon about how many hospitals are participating in the program.
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