KHA is pleased to release the Utilization Trend Report, updated with data from January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2016.   

A copy of the report is available on the KHA website's Data Center, under Utilization.

If you have any questions, please contact Chuck Warnick at KHA (502-426-6220 or 800-945-4542 or via cwarnick@kyha.com).

KHA is pleased to release the Utilization Trend Report, updated with data from January 1, 2010 through September 30, 2015.   

A copy of the report is available at http://www.kyha.com/WCM/Services/Data_Information/Data_Reports.aspx.  If you have any questions, please contact Chuck Warnick at KHA (502-426-6220 or 800-945-4542 or via cwarnick@kyha.com).

On May 7, KHA emailed the most recent Pay for Performance (P4P) quality reports to all Kentucky hospital quality directors, chief executive officers , chief financial officers and chief nursing officers. The Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Measure Trends Analysis Quarterly Update is based on Hospital Compare’s October 2013 (first quarter 2014 update) and is designed to provide hospitals with a comparative review over time of the quality data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and published on the Hospital Compare Web site at http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/.

The specific measures analyzed (32 in total) represent the Process of Care, Patient Experience, Patient Outcomes and Efficiency measures CMS has adopted for use in federal fiscal years (FFYs) 2014, 2015 and 2016 Hospital VBP Programs. Certain measures do not apply to all program years. Text is provided under each data...

The 2014 KHA Health Care Salary eSurvey results are now available! KHA is pleased to provide this service for free to its members and asks that every hospital review the following Notice to Members prior to accessing the survey results. The notice is available online at http://www.kyha.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/notice-to-members-on-antitrust-compliance.pdf.

2014 Participant List Included Job Titles (Alphabetically) Included Job Titles (By Job Family) Job Titles Not Appearing in 2014 The online results allow you to create custom reports and perform database queries. You also have the ability to run custom peer group reports by selecting specific hospitals...

This week, reports showing readmissions trends were sent to to acute care hospital chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief nursing officers and quality directors.

This analysis is designed to provide hospitals with a comparative review, over time, of the readmissions measures that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently/will be evaluating under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. The analysis also provides an in-depth review of actual and projected performance under the Readmissions Reduction Program.

Similar to the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program analysis, this update includes a new report called Performance Scorecard. This report provides a detailed review of hospital performance and the factors that drive performance under the Readmissions Reduction Program for federal fiscal years (FFYs) 2013, 2014 and 2015 using actual and estimated data. Using performance and revenue data critical to the Program, the report uses a series of tables and graphs to highlight exposure areas and the conditions that drive the payment penalties by program year. Each section of the report includes text to describe what is displayed, whether it is actual or estimated, how the data relates to the program and why it is important....

Last week, KHA e-mailed the most recent Pay for Performance (P4P) quality reports to hospitals. The Quarterly Update is based on Hospital Compare’s Quarterly (third quarter 2013) Data Release. 

This analysis is designed to provide hospitals with a comparative review over time of the quality data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and published on the Hospital Compare website. All of the sources, time periods and measures analyzed are defined in the the included description document. Hospital performance, U.S. average, and U.S. top 10 performance performance are from the quarterly updates to the CMS Hospital Compare quality database from December 2010 (fourth quarter 2010) through December 2013 (fourth quarter 2013) when available. The measure collection dates related to these database updates are listed directly on the report. 

Please note that this analysis evaluates performance scores for ALL hospitals included in CMS' Hospital Compare database regardless of estimated Value-Based...