Transparency

From Docs

Relevant examples:

• Health Services, led by Secretary Michael Leavitt, embrace transparency as a fundamental driver of health care innovation and reform
• Consumer Health Ratings - shows national efforts to have comparative prescription pricing information
  • MyFloridaRX - Florida Attorney General making comparative prescription pricing tool
  • New York Rx - New York Attorney General making comparative prescription pricing tool
• Hospital Comparison tools
  • The Health Care Facts - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and Louisiana making comparative hospital metric information available in consumer nutritional label form
  • Texas Price Point - consumer site created by the Texas Hospital Association in order to provide basic demographic, quality and charge information on Texas hospitals
• California's Transparency Efforts
  • California Health Plan Comparisons - California's Office of the Patient Advocate releases a yearly Health Care Quality Report Card on the top HMOs and medical groups in California. This Report Card features how plans rate on meeting national standards of care and patient satisfaction. OPA also leads the charge in creating a health care quality portal to promote transparency and the use of quality data in California.
  • California Hospital Comparisons - California Health Foundation providing comparative quality rankings for over 200 California Hospitals on 50 different quality and performance metrics
• Humana's new transparency tool which provides comparative pricing information -
• NY Health Care Report - Comparisons of cost and quality for all HMOs and hospitals in New York