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Twelve hospitals to be awarded a total of $363,801 in payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

ARLINGTON, Texas, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas Health hospitals across the Metroplex will receive financial awards from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for performing well in a national quality incentive project.

The 12 Texas Health hospitals participating in the project will receive 56 awards totaling $363,801. Each of the hospitals attained or exceeded quality benchmarks in one or more areas of care measured in the Premier-CMS health care alliance Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) pay-for-performance project. The areas of care measured in the national project are: heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and hip and knee surgical services.

"Health care consumers across North Texas should be proud to know the community hospitals that have served them for decades are recognized for continual improvements in quality," said Texas Health Chief Executive Officer Douglas D. Hawthorne, FACHE. "These awards represent a lot of hard work and effort across our health care system to continually raise the bar for the quality of care we provide to the communities we serve."

The Premier pay-for-performance project is one of many measurements Texas Health hospitals use to benchmark and improve quality. These results are from the fourth year of the HQID project. Texas Health has participated in the project since its inception in October 2003.

The HQID project is the first national project of its kind, designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals are effective at improving
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