10/19/11

The New GHA Honor Roll

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Why change the Honor Roll?Changes to the GHA Honor RollMethodology1st Quarter 2011 GHA Honor RollQuestions

Why Change the Honor Roll?

The 9th scope of work ended – 10th scope of work started

Expanding to encompass measures in VBP Financial impact for hospitals

GHA Board charged the Best Practice Subcommittee to develop a new methodology to ensure the continuation of the Honor Roll

Changes to the GHA Honor Roll

Benefits Includes 139 Georgia Hospitals

This is more than the current Honor Roll Able to include more CAH’s and small rurals

Able to include more Core Measures AMI, HF, PN and SCIP

Is a composite score of only the measures submitted by the hospitals – there is no penalty for not submitting all core measures

Changes to the GHA Honor Roll

The naming convections will change to more accurately define each category

•Chairman (Top 5%)•Trustee (Top 15%)•Presidential (Top 30%)

Methodology

The new Honor Roll is based on the Dartmouth methodology for composite scoring

The Dartmouth method is a weighted average of the four conditions specific summary scores

There is no penalty for not submitting measures

Methodology

It is created by multiplying the AMI score by the number of AMI measure submissions, the Heart Failure (HF) score by the number of HF measure submissions, the Pneumonia (PN) score by the number of PN measure submissions and the SCIP score by the number of SCIP submissions

The results and summed and then divided by the sum of the total measure submissions

Presidential Honor Roll – Top 30% of all Georgia Hospitals (96.9 to 98.02)

Trustee Honor Roll – Top 15% of all Georgia Hospitals (98.03 to 99.01)

Chairman’s Honor Roll – Top 5% of all Georgia Hospitals (99.02 to 100)

The thresholds will be locked in for 2 years and then will be re-evaluated

Questions?