The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project is working to increase transparency in the health care market through better performance measurement and public reporting. Advancing the Consumer and Purchaser Advocacy Agenda for Better Quality, More Affordable Care highlights future opportunities for collaboration to build a high performing health care system. Strategies include:
- ensuring the...
The Puget Sound Health Alliance released its first major report on resource utilization for high-volume hospitalizations. The report was created by analyzing data for highly utilized hospital services, and indicators such as length of stay, medical tests, and examinations. The report examines resource use through two lenses--intensity and appropriateness--and paints a picture of the value of such care in the Puget Sound region. Read the complete report...
The South Central PA Alliance, which has been publicly reporting clinical performance measures for the past two years, recently added cost measures to its public report. Using state hospital discharge data from the Pennsylvania Health Cost Containment Council, the Alliance shares the new cost and efficiency on its public reporting website. The new cost measures include:
• average length of stay,
• overall readmission rates and
• average total charges for patients with diabetes-related conditions, heart attack, heart failure,...
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