Common use of Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Pool Clause in Contracts

Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Pool. The DSRIP Pool is available in DY 2 through 5 for the development of a program of activity that supports hospitals’ efforts to enhance access to health care, the quality of care, and the health of the patients and families they serve. The program of activity funded by the DSRIP will be those activities that are directly responsive to the needs and characteristics of the populations and communities served by each hospital. Under DSRIP, participating hospitals must implement new, or significantly enhance existing, health care initiatives. The state must develop the DSRIP Planning Protocol which will serve as the guiding document for the state’s DSRIP Pool. Each participating hospital must develop a Hospital DSRIP Plan, consistent with the DSRIP Planning Protocol, that is rooted in the intensive learning and sharing that will accelerate meaningful improvement. The individual Hospital DSRIP Plan must be consistent with the hospital’s mission and quality goals, as well as CMS’s overarching approach for improving health care through the simultaneous pursuit of three aims: better care for individuals (including access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes), better health for the population, and lower cost through improvement (without any harm whatsoever to individuals, families or communities). In its Hospital DSRIP Plan, each hospital will describe the projects. For each project, the hospital should describe the specific measurable goals for improving the health outcomes of patients and the populations the hospital services, the data analytics that support the selection of these goals, and how it will carry out the project that is designed to achieve these specific goals. Each project must consist of a series of milestones that build on each other, drawn from a predetermined menu of milestones grouped according to four Project Categories. Hospitals may qualify to receive incentive payments (DSRIP Payments) for fully meeting milestones (as specified in the Hospital DSRIP Plan), which represent measurable, incremental steps toward the completion of project activities, or demonstration of their impact on health system performance or quality of care.

Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Pool. The DSRIP Pool is available in DY 2 through 3through 5 for the development of a program of activity that supports hospitals’ efforts to enhance access to health care, the quality of care, and the health of the patients and families they serve. The program of activity funded by the DSRIP will be those activities that are directly responsive to the needs and characteristics of the populations and communities served by each hospital. Under DSRIP, participating hospitals must implement new, or significantly enhance existing, health care initiatives. The state must develop the DSRIP Planning Protocol which will serve as the guiding document for the state’s DSRIP Pool. Each participating hospital must develop a Hospital DSRIP Plan, consistent with the DSRIP Planning Protocol, that is rooted in the intensive learning and sharing that will accelerate meaningful improvement. The individual Hospital DSRIP Plan must be consistent with the hospital’s mission and quality goals, as well as CMS’s overarching approach for improving health care through the simultaneous pursuit of three aims: better care for individuals (including access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes), better health for the population, and lower cost through improvement (without any harm whatsoever to individuals, families or communities). In its Hospital DSRIP Plan, each hospital will describe the projects. For each project, the hospital should describe the specific measurable goals for improving the health outcomes of patients and the populations the hospital services, the data analytics that support the selection of these goals, and how it will carry out the project that is designed to achieve these specific goals. Each project must consist of a series of milestones that build on each other, drawn from a predetermined menu of milestones grouped according to four Project Categories. Hospitals may qualify to receive incentive payments (DSRIP Payments) for fully meeting milestones (as specified in the Hospital DSRIP Plan), which represent measurable, incremental steps toward the completion of project activities, or demonstration of their impact on health system performance or quality of care.