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Table 9 Association of HVBP with 30-day risk adjusted mortality rate for AMI, HF, and pneumonia using hospital fixed effects regression specification

From: Association between degree of exposure to the Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program and 30-day mortality: experience from the first four years of Medicare’s pay-for-performance program

 

AMI

HF

Pneumonia

Post-HVBP

−2.059* (0.054)

0.607* (0.04)

−0.064 (0.05)

High Medicare share hospitals x Post-HVBP

0.038 (0.08)

0.047 (0.06)

0.120* (0.08)

N

11,600

14,960

15,048

  1. Sources: Authors’ analysis of Hospital Compare (2009–2016), American Hospital Association Annual Survey (2009), and Final Impact Rules (2009–2016) data
  2. High Medicare share hospitals: Hospitals with Medicare share inpatient days > = 55%; Low Medicare share hospitals: Hospitals with Medicare share inpatient days < 55%
  3. Post-HVBP refers to the period 2011–2016
  4. Estimates from hospital fixed effects model reported; heteroscedasticity-robust standard errors clustered at the hospital level; model includes year dummies
  5. The difference-in-differences estimates are indicated in bold
  6. Standard errors in parenthesis
  7. *p < 0.05