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§ 522-A. Hospital performance reporting

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 62 P.S. Poor Persons and Public WelfareEffective: March 31, 2019

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 62 P.S. Poor Persons and Public Welfare (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 1. Human Services Code (Refs & Annos)
Article V-a. Health Care Outcomes
(c) Hospital Outcomes Program
Effective: March 31, 2019
62 P.S. § 522-A
§ 522-A. Hospital performance reporting
Currentness
The department shall develop and maintain a reporting system to provide each hospital with regular confidential reports regarding the hospital's performance with respect to potentially avoidable readmissions and potentially avoidable complications. The department shall:
(1) Conduct ongoing analyses of existing and relevant State claims databases to identify instances of potentially avoidable complications and readmissions and the expenditures associated with the cases.
(2) Create or locate Statewide complications and readmissions norms.
(3) Measure actual-to-expected hospital performance compared to Statewide norms.
(4) Compare hospitals with the hospitals' peers using risk adjustment procedures that account for the severity of illness of each hospital's patients.
(5) Distribute reports to hospitals to provide them with actionable information to create policies, contracts and programs designed to improve target outcomes.
(6) Foster collaboration among hospitals in sharing best practices.

Credits

1967, June 13, P.L. 31, No. 21, art. 5-A, § 522-A, added 2018, June 22, P.L. 258, No. 40, § 3.1, effective March 31, 2019.
62 P.S. § 522-A, PA ST 62 P.S. § 522-A
Current through Act 11 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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