Take a closer look at what it means to get hit with a penalty from one particular program: The Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) program.

1. HACs
Hospital Acquired Conditions

2. What are HACs?
Hospital Acquired Conditions (HACs) are conditions that
patients acquire while receiving treatment for another
condition during their hospital stay.

3. Examples of
HACs Include
Infections01
Blood Clots02
Cases of Sepsis03
Bedsores04
Hip Fractures05
Other Complications06

4. What’s at stake with HACs?

5. HACs can increase the
risk of mortality for a
patient by more than 72%
72%

6. On average 8 days are
added to a patient’s length
of stay due to HACs
8.17

7. Who has been penalized for HACs?

8. IN
2014
CMS started the HAC Reduction
Program to reduce these preventable
incidents and to reduce hospital costs.

9. 1,756
hospitals have received
a HAC penalty since the
program began

10. HAC penalties in 2019

11. 800 hospitalsIN
2019 will receive a penalty for
their HAC performance

12. This number is the
HIGHEST
since the federal government
launched the HAC reduction
program

13. 110
are being punished for the fifth
straight time!
HOSPITALS
And a whopping

14. 1%Each hospital will lose
1% of its Medicare payments
for having poor HAC
performance.

15. California
99 hospitals
0.73 average HAC score
Texas
59 hospitals
0.98 average HAC score
1 2
States with the most hospitals penalized

16. New York
58 hospitals
0.81 average HAC score
Florida
39 hospitals
0.83 average HAC score
33 4
States with the most hospitals penalized

17. Georgia
27 hospitals
0.73 average HAC score
Illinois
27 hospitals
0.74 average HAC score
35 6
States with the most hospitals penalized

18. Louisiana
27 hospitals
0.85 average HAC score
Michigan
24 hospitals
0.66 average HAC score
37
8
States with the most hospitals penalized

19. Pennsylvania
24 hospitals
0.65 average HAC score
Indiana
22 hospitals
0.76 average HAC score
39 10
States with the most hospitals penalized

20. While there remains work
to be done, HACs have
declined since 2014.

21. Average annual decline
in HACs from 2010-2017
4.5%

22. 2014-2017
37%
C. Diff
infections
28%
Adverse
drug
events
17%
Post-
operative
venous
thromboem-
bolism
13%
Ventillator-
associated
pneumonia
12%
All other
HACs
6%
CLASBI
5%
CAUTI
5%
Falls
5%
Obstetric
adverse
events
0
Surgical
site
infections
Pressure
ulcers
6%Changes for Certain HACs

23. Estimated total rate of
decline in HACs from
2014-2017
13%

24. The CMS goal for rate of
decline in HACs from
2014-2019
20%

25. What’s your
organization doing
to prevent HACs?
Will you be a part
of the solution?

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