information on health care cost and resource use to consumers. You can use this primer to help your staff and partners: Understand and explain why your Alliance is choosing to report cost and resource use ... reporting this information. Discover what your Alliance can do to spur advances in reporting cost ...

Jan 10,2012

Increased investments in transparency—particularly of health care cost and resource use information—are meant to address the challenges of rising costs and inefficient care. However, the ability of these ... understand and appropriately apply comparative information on costs and resource use to their health care ...

Jan 30,2013

Cost and Resource Use Information: How to Do It?' webinar were to assess physicians' attitudes toward cost-containment strategies and perceived role in addressing health care costs and to ... cost-consciousness. Public ...

Apr 10,2014

Cost Measures

public reporting of cost information. Some Alliances focused cost displays around certain conditions or procedures (e.g., C-sections) while others provided a broader perspective about cost (e.g., reducing variations in cost/price for the same procedures). Despite their different approaches, Alliances confronted a ...

May 14,2015

When do consumers find cost and resource use information most useful for decision making?

  In the effort to encourage consumers to use cost and resource information to make ... decisions, they are best equipped to choose  value: the best possible care for the lowest possible cost .  ... factors. Consumers demonstrate more interest in applying cost information to their decisions when ...

Oct 02,2013

reporting and the challenges associated with adding cost and efficiency measures to reports of quality ... Readmissions,” will look at readmission rates, one of the most commonly reported cost and efficiency measures. ... (here) (Cost & Efficiency) ...

Aug 01,2011

Health care costs in America are such a mystery that often even doctors and most people who work in ... Johnson Foundation, offer their thoughts on the complex landscape of measuring health care cost and determining price in America. Cost Track - Collection - ...

Nov 15,2011

Patients and family members are becoming more sensitive to the cost of care as they bear a greater share of health care costs. Out-of-pocket costs are a worry for most patients and a substantial financial burden for a growing number with a variety of types of insurance plans. Controlling the cost of care is now ...

Mar 20,2015

This matrix was used to track the quality and cost goals for each Alliance. Public Fri, 2015-05-01 2015 May ...

May 08,2015

Improving Transparency in Health Care Costs

Cost & Efficiency ... burden to both the patient and the provider. Increasing prices for treatments and overall costs also have ... treatments requires objective measurements of quality and costs.   Oregon Health Care Quality ...

May 07,2014