Hospital Quality Incentive Payment Program

Purpose

The Colorado Hospital Affordability and Sustainability Enterprise (CHASE) includes a provision to establish Hospital Quality Incentive Payments (HQIP) funded by healthcare affordability and sustainability fees to improve the quality of care provided in Colorado Hospitals. At the request of the CHASE Board, the HQIP subcommittee recommends the approach for quality incentive payments.

The HQIP subcommittee is tasked to:

Adopt measures that can be prospectively set to allow time for planning and successful implementation;
Identify measures and methodologies that apply to acre provided to Health First Colorado members;
Adhere to Value-Based Purchasing principles;
Maximize participation in Health First Colorado; and
Minimize the number of hospitals which would not qualify for selected measures.

Measure Details

2022 Hospital Quality Incentive Payment Program Details - February 24, 2022

2021 Hospital Quality Incentive Payment Program Details

2021 Hospital Quality Incentive Payment Program Measure Summary

2020 Hospital Quality Incentive Payment Program Details

2020 Hospital Quality Incentive Payment Program Instructions

Timeline

The Data Collection Tool (DCT) opens May 2, 2022 and will remain open through May 31, 2022. We will have all user accounts set up and ready to go live on May 2, 2022.

Below are some key dates associated with the revised timeline for HQIP 2022.