SURGICAL CARE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (SCIP)

Rewarding Hospitals for Quality Compliance

SCIP is a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-sponsored national partnership of health care organizations committed to improving surgical care through the reduction of postoperative complications³²
SCIP includes 2 VTE process outcome measures³³

SCIP VTE 1: surgery patients with recommended VTE prophylaxis ordered
SCIP VTE 2: surgery patients who received appropriate VTE prophylaxis within 24 hours prior to surgery or 24 hours after surgery

VTE (Venous Thromboembolism) prophylaxis surgical care

Hip Replacement Surgery

FACT:

SCIP goal: reduce the incidence of surgical complications by 25% by 2010³²

To obtain full reimbursement from CMS, health care organizations must report their data for SCIP-VTE 1 and VTE 2^34-37
The data are part of Hospital Compare, a CMS database that allows consumers to compare the quality of care provided at various health care institutions³⁸

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