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Legislative Summary:

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

http://www.ashp.org/DocLibrary/AboutUs/Legislative

-SummaryFinal-Reform-Bill.aspx

excerpt:

Hospitalizations

This bill creates a hospital value-based purchasing program that would provide value-based performance payments to hospitals meeting performance standards for discharges. Each hospital would receive an annual performance score from which performance payments would be based. Performance payments would be funded through reduced hospital diagnosis-related group (DRG) payments. DRG payments will be reduced by 1% in fiscal year 2013, 1.25% in fiscal year 2014, 1.5% in fiscal year 2015, 1.75% in fiscal year 2016, and 2% in fiscal year 2017 and each following fiscal year.

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