In the July 5 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) published a notice inviting rural inpatient hospitals to apply to participate in the Medicare Hospital Gainsharing Demonstration. The program is intended to improve the quality and efficiency of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries and to improve operational and financial hospital performance with the sharing of remuneration between hospitals and physicians in six projects, each project consisting of one hospital.
Because two of the demonstration projects must be rural, and because CMS received a limited response from rural hospitals to the original solicitation in September 2006, it is reissuing the solicitation for proposals from rural hospitals only. Rural hospitals that submitted proposals previously are eligible to reapply. Read the notice.
