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Premier Inc. To Present at National Events in June; Discussions Include National P4P Project Administered By Premier and CMS

Posted on: Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 12:00 CDT

Leaders from the Premier Inc. healthcare alliance will speak at conferences around the nation in June, with several presentations focusing on the latest information from Premier's Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) Project with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Events at which Premier's leaders are speaking include:

-- Quantros, Inc. Improving Core Measure Performance Conference; Monday, June 5; Las Vegas, NV: www.quantros.com.

-- American Medical Association (AMA) Organized Medical Staff Section; Thursday, June 8; Chicago, IL; www.ama-assn.org.

-- Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Tri-Regional Conference; Thursday, June 15; St. Petersburg Beach, FL; www.triregional.com.

-- Healthcare Financial Management Association Annual National Institute; Monday, June 19; Orlando, FL; www.hfma.org.

-- AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting; Sunday, June 25; Seattle, WA; www.academyhealth.org.

-- 2006 Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice; Thursday, June 29; San Antonio, TX; www.acestar.uthscsa.edu.

The HQID is the first national project of its kind, designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals are effective at improving the quality of inpatient care. More than 250 hospitals are voluntarily participating. The project uses Premier's Perspective(TM) database, the largest clinical comparative database in the nation, to track hospitals' performance.

In year one of the demonstration, CMS awarded $8.85 million in incentives to the top-performing hospitals in the project. In addition, CMS-validated data from the first year of the HQID demonstrates a significant improvement in the quality of care across five clinical focus areas as measured by 33 nationally standardized and widely accepted quality indicators. The average improvement across the clinical areas was 6.6 percent. These performance gains have outpaced those of hospitals involved in other national performance initiatives. Approximately 235 acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) patients were saved as a result of quality improvements in that related focus area alone.

About Premier, Inc.

Premier, Inc., helps hospitals accelerate performance on both clinical outcomes and supply chain costs. Premier is a healthcare alliance entirely owned by more than 200 of the nation's leading not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems. These organizations operate or are affiliated with nearly 1,500 hospitals and more than 38,500 other healthcare sites. Premier Purchasing Partners provides an array of services supporting health services delivery including group purchasing totaling more than $25 billion annually in supplies and equipment purchasing, as well as supply chain and clinical performance improvement services. Premier Healthcare Informatics offers performance measurement, benchmarking, and reporting products and advisory services supporting quality improvement. Premier Insurance Management Services helps hospitals manage insurance costs and improve risk management and claims capabilities. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Premier has offices in Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; and Washington, DC. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.

Source: Business Wire

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