VALUE OF CARE AT SPOONER HEALTH SYSTEM

Critical Access Hospital in Spooner, WI 54801

Payment and Value of Care

SPOONER HEALTH SYSTEM
819 Ash Street Spooner, WI 54801
Phone: (715) 635-2111

The payment and value of care quality measures at Spooner Health System evaluate the Medicare spending per beneficiary during an inpatient hospital admission through 30 days after discharge. The following measures are price-standardized and risk-adjusted: payment for heart attack, payment for heart failure patients and payment for pneumonia patients. The measures include patients 65 years or older who were enrolled in Medicare for 12 months prior to their hospitalization and 30 days after admission.

The payment measures include: payment for heart attacks, payment for heart failure patients and payment for pneumonia patients. The value of care combines measures of payment and the patient mortality rate to assess the value of care.

Payment of Care

The payment of care measures add up all payments made to treat medical conditions starting the day the patient is hospitalized and continuing for the next 30 days. Patients admitted for a medical condition like a heart attack, heart failure, or pneumonia might need different tests, treatments, and services. The payment measures include payments made to the hospital, doctors, nurses, hospices and patient co-payments made during this time.

MeasureHospital AverageHow this Hospital Compares
Heart Attack PaymentsNot Available Measure: Heart Attack Payments
Sample data was collected between 07/01/2011 and 06/30/2014
Number of Cases Too Small

Payment for heart attack patients. [1]

Heart Failure Payments$15,006 Measure: Heart Failure Payments
Sample data was collected between 07/01/2011 and 06/30/2014
No Different than the National Average Payment of $15,223

Payment for heart failure (HF) patients.

Pneumonia Payments$14,305 Measure: Pneumonia Payments
Sample data was collected between 07/01/2011 and 06/30/2014
No Different than the National Average Payment of $14,294

Payment for pneumonia (PN) patients.

Value of Care

The value of care measures consider the payment amounts and the mortality rates to evaluate the quality of care received. The value of care is evaluated for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia patients. National benchmarks help patients compare if a hospital’s death rate was better than, no different than, or worse than the national rate. Similarly, patients can compare if a hospital’s payment per condition is less than, no different than, or greater than the national average payment.

MeasureHospital AverageHow this Hospital Compares
Value of Care for Heart FailureAvg. Mortality: 11.0%
Avg. Payment: $15,006
No Different than the National Mortality Average of 11.6%
No Different than the National Average Payment of $15,223


Value of care for heart failure (HF) patients. Average mortality and average payment.

Value of Care for PneumoniaAvg. Mortality: 11.2%
Avg. Payment: $14,305
No Different than the National Mortality Average of 11.5%
No Different than the National Average Payment of $14,294


Value of care for pneumonia (PN) patients. Average mortality and average payment.

Footnotes:
  • [1] The number of cases/patients is too few to report.