Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration

Launched in October 2003, the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) pay-for-performance project was designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals were effective at improving the quality of inpatient care. Approximately 250 hospitals—small/large, urban/rural, teaching/non-teaching facilities—across 36 U.S. states participated in the demonstration. * acute myocardial infarction (AMI/heart attack) * coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) * heart failure (HF) * pneumonia (PN) * hip and knee (HK) replacement

Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration

Launched in October 2003, the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) pay-for-performance project was designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals were effective at improving the quality of inpatient care. Approximately 250 hospitals—small/large, urban/rural, teaching/non-teaching facilities—across 36 U.S. states participated in the demonstration. * acute myocardial infarction (AMI/heart attack) * coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) * heart failure (HF) * pneumonia (PN) * hip and knee (HK) replacement