The Leapfrog Hospital Survey Scoring Algorithms - Scoring Details for Sections 2 – 10 of the

9 Version 8.2 First Release: April 1, 2021 © 2021 The Leapfrog Group Updated Release: June 28, 2021 Table of Contents 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Survey Scoring Algorithms Summary of Changes to the 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Survey Leapfrog is implementing the following changes to the 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Survey related to scoring and public reporting due to the continued impact of COVID-19. [...] Performance categories are assigned for each procedure as follows: Hospital and Surgeon Volume Standard Score For each of the procedures performed by the hospital… (Performance Category) • The hospital met the minimum hospital volume standard for the Achieved the Standard procedure; and • The hospital’s process for privileging surgeons does include meeting or exceeding the minimum surgeon volume s. [...] • The hospital did not meet the minimum hospital volume Limited Achievement standard for the procedure; and • The hospital does not include the minimum surgeon volume standard in its privileging process. [...] The hospital responded to the Leapfrog Survey questions Limited Achievement pertaining to adoption of this policy but does not yet meet the criteria for “Some Achievement.” Declined to Respond The hospital did not respond to the questions in this section of the Survey or did not submit a Survey. [...] The first benchmark is the Median Benchmark, which is the median of the median doses reported across all Leapfrog-reporting hospitals.* The second benchmark is the 75th Percentile Benchmark, which is the median of the 75th percentile doses reported across all Leapfrog- reporting hospitals.* Hospitals receive points based on their reported median dose (50th percentile) compared to the benchmarks.