Effective August 1, 2008 with the beginning of the 9th Statement of Work, Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) will no longer be responsible for implementing the Hospital Payment Monitoring Program (HPMP).  Many QIOs, including CIMRO of Nebraska, distributed quarterly hospital-specific comparative data reports (Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report or PEPPERs).

QIOs will be able to distribute PEPPERs though the January 2009 data release. It has not been determined at this time whether PEPPERs will be generated after January 2009. The tools and resources posted at www.hpmpresources.org will be available through January 2009.  QIOs will continue to perform other statutory and regulatory mandated review activity and quality improvement as described in the 9th Statement of Work.

Please see the PEPPER Distribution Changes document for further details.