Congress authorized inpatient Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) in Section 3001(a) of the Affordable Care Act. The program uses the hospital quality data reporting infrastructure developed for the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program, which was authorized by Section 501(b) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
Hospital VBP is part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) long-standing effort to link Medicare’s payment system to improve healthcare quality, including the quality of care provided in the inpatient hospital setting.
Provided by the American Hotel and Lodging Association, a list of actions properties should take to embark on becoming eco-friendly are:
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