Quality Recognition - CMS Selects St. John’s to participate in national project

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) selected St. John’s Clinic to participate in a new Physician Group Practice Demonstration Project.

This three-year initiative is the first pay-for-performance project for physicians under the national Medicare program. The project will evaluate methods of improving treatment for Medicare patients with certain chronic diseases, such as asthma, diabetes, and chronic heart failure.

St. John’s physicians will have the opportunity to demonstrate how improving care in a proactive, coordinated manner will result in both improved health outcomes and cost savings.

St. John’s is honored to have been chosen to participate and we look forward to sharing results in future quality reports. All St. John’s Clinic physicians, approximately 420, are participating in this important project.