Mortality Reduction – Part 1

Mortality scores are increasingly an issue for many health care organizations across the country. Obviously, the pandemic had a major role in affecting these scores, but the truth is this was an issue before the pandemic and only rose to attention of the public and regulators from it. Despite the obvious reasons organizations need to address their mortality scores as a key quality indicator, these scores also are a major influence in national quality scores and reputation. Organizations can also use good scores as leverage in negotiations with payers. In earlier episodes, we addressed this issue with a data scientist and a documentation specialist. In this series, a physician executive gives his perspective.

 

Guest speaker:

Aman Sabharwal, MD, MHA, CPHM

Executive Principal

Operations and Quality

Vizient

 

Moderator:

Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM

Principal

Clinical Operations and Quality

Vizient

 

Show Notes:

[01:32] Importance of mortality scores

[02:50] Putting the pandemic aside

[03:09] Mortality weighs heavily in rankings

[04:08] Mortality scores and payers

[04:30] The O/E Ratio

[06:11] Four workstreams to address mortality

[08:33] One single thing an organization can do to improve ranking

 

Links | Resources:

To contact Modern Practice: modernpracticepodcast@vizientinc.com

Aman Sabharwal’s contact email: aman.sabharwal@vizientinc.com

Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement – Mortality (AHRQ) Click here

Variation in US Hospital Mortality Rates for Patients Admitted With COVID-19 During the First 6 Months of the Pandemic (JAMA Internal Medicine) Click here

 

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