Value based purchasing is a CMS initiative that rewards acute care hospitals with incentive payments for the quality of care they provide to Medicare beneficiaries. Starting in $2013,$ hospital reimbursements were reduced by $xx\%,$ and the reductions have progressively increased to $xx\%.$

$10\%,12\%$

$1\%,3\%$

$2\%,5\%$

$1\%,2\%$