Most people pay little attention to health plan report cards despite the wealth of information they provide on medical coverage. Unfortunately, most employers also ignore these report cards, often selecting plans on the basis of cost rather than service quality. 'Health Matters,' which is prepared by the Colorado Business Group on Health (CBGH), is believed to be the most comprehensive health care report card on the state's health plan industry. The CBGH is a nonprofit coalition backed by a coalition of 11 major Colorado employers including Norwest Bank, Coors Brewing and Lockheed Martin.
WASHINGTON - Picking a specialist for a delicate medical procedure like a heart bypass could get a lot easier in the not-too- distant future. The government announced Monday that Medicare will finally allow its extensive claims database to be used by employers, insurance companies and consumer groups to produce report cards on local doctors and hospitals.
Insurers are paying close attention to hospitals' performance concerning patient safety and quality measures. Patient safety is in the spotlight because of an upsurge in medical errors. The HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals study, which looked at the mortality and economic impact of medical errors and injuries that occurred among Medicare hospital admissions nationwide between 2000 and 2002, said that an average of 195,000 people in the US died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years studied. Insurers are relying increasingly on quality and safety indicators and report cards from rating firms such as HealthGrades to assess hospitals and medical facilities to help prevent such errors. One of the quality measures most commonly relied...
In this Article I examine “medical tourism”—the travel of patients who are residents of one country to another country for medical treatment—which is fast becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. To date, the primary U.S. medical tourists appear to have been uninsured or underinsured Americans seeking substantial cost savings by traveling to less developed countries for care. More recently, state governments, self-insured firms, Fortune 500 companies, and domestic insurers have begun attempts to get their insured populations to use medical tourism as well by requiring it or giving incentives for its use (what I call “insurer-prompted medical tourism”). There is, however, a dark side to the growth of this industry. In this Article I set out...
... by country rather than by hospital, a 2007 report from the National Center for Policy Analysis sugge... and may be more likely to consult report cards than the average American respondent that is the f...
Dr. Clarence Watridge of East Memphis, a neurosurgeon with Semmes- Murphey Clinic, has returned from New York, where he spoke to a national gathering of health care CEOs. His topic, "Thinking and Planning Like a Competitor," focused on the opportunities that exist for physicians to effectively measure outcomes and improve the cost of care. These measurements included controlling costs through physician report cards that compare individual data to best practices. Having attended medical school on an Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship, Watridge served as an Air Force neurosurgeon at Keesler Air Force Base from 1981-84, attaining the rank of major. He returned to Memphis in 1985 to join Semmes- Murphey Clinic and the academic faculty of the University of Tennessee department of ne...
The California Department of Public Health has concluded an investigation into the possession of fake cardiopulmonary resuscitation cards by workers at Citrus Valley Medical Center. According to a report released this week, the department found the facility failed to ensure conditions of employment were completed, and the facility failed to report the incident in a timely manner.
Online report cards for hospitals here and around the country provide good information for medical-care consumers, a group that sooner or later includes just about all of us. This at-your- fingertips information should also be instructive for the hospitals themselves as they look for ways to improve service and efficiency. Vancouver's two hospitals, Southwest Washington Medical Center and Legacy Salmon Creek, "make the grade" as the headline on Paul Craig's story in Thursday's Columbian said. They each "exceed national average on surveys that allow patients to comparison shop" from their home computers. The survey results are a credit to the administrators and staffs at the two local hospitals, and that generally goes for both quality of care and pricing.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press
...Picking a specialist for a delicate medical procedure like a heart bypass could get a lot easi... companies and consumer groups to produce report cards on doctors and hospitals. By analyzing masse...
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