Our Purpose
The purpose of HPMP is to measure, monitor, and reduce the incidence of improper fee-for-service inpatient Medicare payments. This includes the provision of medically unnecessary services, the provision of services in inappropriate settings, errors in DRG assignment and/or coding, errors in billing, and errors in prepayment denials. Reducing such errors will, in turn, protect the Medicare Trust Fund.

The long-term goal of HPMP is to help inpatient prospective payment system hospitals monitor payment patterns by analyzing data, conducting focused audits, and implementing system changes to prevent payment errors.