Section 522-A - Hospital performance reporting.The department shall develop and maintain a reporting system to provide each hospital with regular confidential reports regarding the hospital's performance with respect to potentially avoidable readmissions and potentially avoidable complications. The department shall:
(1) Conduct ongoing analyses of existing and relevant state claims databases to identify instances of potentially avoidable complications and readmissions and the expenditures associated with the cases.(2) Create or locate statewide complications and readmissions norms.(3) Measure actual-to-expected hospital performance compared to statewide norms.(4) Compare hospitals with the hospitals' peers using risk adjustment procedures that account for the severity of illness of each hospital's patients.(5) Distribute reports to hospitals to provide them with actionable information to create policies, contracts and programs designed to improve target outcomes.(6) Foster collaboration among hospitals in sharing best practices.Added by P.L. TBD 2018 No. 40, § 3.1, eff. 3/31/2019.