# Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Program
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2011-05-06 · Effective 2011-07-01 · 76 FR 26490
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-10568
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 26490
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 422
- **Publication date:** 2011-05-06
- **Effective date:** 2011-07-01
- **HHS docket:** CMS-3239-F
## Abstract

This final rule implements a Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing program (Hospital VBP program or the program) under section 1886(o) of the Social Security Act (the Act), under which value-based incentive payments will be made in a fiscal year to hospitals that meet performance standards with respect to a performance period for the fiscal year involved. The program will apply to payments for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2012, in accordance with section 1886(o) (as added by section 3001(a) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively known as the Affordable Care Act)). Scoring in the Hospital VBP program will be based on whether a hospital meets or exceeds the performance standards established with respect to the measures. By adopting this program, we will reward hospitals based on actual quality performance on measures, rather than simply reporting data for those measures.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/05/06/2011-10568/medicare-program-hospital-inpatient-value-based-purchasing-program)
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