Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program Overview

The Hospital IQR program was developed as a result of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003. Section 5001(a) of Pub. 109-171 of the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 provided new requirements for the Hospital IQR program, which built on the voluntary Hospital Quality Initiative.

The Hospital IQR program is intended to equip consumers with quality of care information to make more informed decisions about healthcare options. It is also intended to encourage hospitals and clinicians to improve the quality of inpatient care provided to all patients. The hospital quality of care information gathered through the program is available to consumers on the Hospital Compare website.

The Hospital IQR program requires "sub-section (d)" hospitals to submit data for specific quality measures for health conditions common among people with Medicare, and which typically result in hospitalization.

Eligible hospitals that do not participate in the Hospital IQR program will receive an annual market basket update with a 2.0 percentage point reduction.

Resources for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Payment Determination

Resources for FY 2015 Payment Determination

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