Hospitals participating in the Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP) are permitted to make investments in hardware, software, and training that help to improve quality data collection and reporting in meeting value-based payment and care goals. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services value-based programs reward health care providers with incentive payments for the quality of care they provide to Medicare beneficiaries.
Any activity to support process improvements that result in improvedquality reporting and/or inpatient and outpatient measures for PPS acute care hospitals.
Activities to improve MBQIP patient engagement data collection, and reporting for MBQIP measures including provider communications and patient and family engagement that directly impacts patientsatisfaction scores. Hospitals may use funds to support an HCAHPS vendor to assist them in fully implementing MBQIP patient engagement measures through HCAHPS and improved reporting.
C. Efficiency or quality improvement training in support of VBP related initiatives
To support MBQIP measures in patient safety and care transitions, consider adopting Six Sigma, Lean, Plan-Do-Study-Act, or other such efficiency or quality improvement processes to address performance issues related to VBP initiatives, such as the following:
D. Provider-Based Clinic (Rural Health Clinic) quality measures education
Any activity that supports educational training for provider-based clinic quality improvement reporting and scores, including patient satisfaction survey scores.
SHIP State Learning Collaborative
Part I: Learning Collaborative: Improving Quality Reporting in Provider-Based Rural Health Clinics
E. Alternative Payment Model and Quality Payment Program training/education
Software or training to prepare staff and physicians for the QualityPayment Program (QPP), which determines payment based on quality, resource use, clinical practice improvement, health equity, and
meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology.
The extent to which employees are passionate about their work and committed to the organization (engagement) and the choice by an employee to stay with an organization instead of seeking employment elsewhere (retention).
