Value Base Purchasing (VBP) is an imitative by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), that rewards acute care hospitals with incentive payments for the quality of care provided. Hospitals are rewarded based on three district measures; the first is the quality of care provided to Medicare patients, the second is how closely clinical best practices are followed and the third is how well patient care experiences were during their hospitalization. Hospitals are no longer paid based on quantity but because of the incentive payments under the VBP program, payments are now based on how well they perform in each measure or how much they have improved. These three measures are then broken down into four domains, the combined score from
