Health Care Quality Reporting: Changes and Challenges.
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: The articles that comprise this spe cial edition of the Health Care Financing Review cover a wide range of topics pertain ing to the public reporting of health care quality. For many years, CMS and other purchasers have used public reporting of health care quality measures not only for public accountability of plans and providers for the care they provide, but also to assist consumers, health plans, and purchasers in making informed decisions to select higher quality care. While many purchasers are moving toward implementing pay-for-per formance or value-based purchasing strat egies, which will undoubtedly have their own impact on the health care marketplace, there is also a growing interest in the pur chaser community in consumer-directed health care and other strategies to make employees and other consumers more aware of costs and more invested in care ful selection of health care options, using as much cost and quality data as can be made available. Within the Federal Government these are reflected in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Transparency Initiative and in provisions of the 2006 Tax Relief and Health Care Act. The emerging strategies previously de scribed argue for the need to improve pub lic reporting on measures of quality. Not only will consumers need assistance mak ing sense of an ever increasing array of
Source: PubMed Central
Author: David J Miranda
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2177137722