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Medicare Says California Group Latest to Join
Information Sharing Initiative
Physician quality and cost to be made public
 March
14, 2007 A California collaborative is the latest group to join the
national network being established by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services to share local data with insurers to produce public
reports on physician performance.
Through the Better Quality Information to Improve
Care for Medicare Beneficiaries (BQI) project, the California
Cooperative Health Care Reporting Initiative (CCHRI) will combine their
claims data or clinical information with that of Medicare to provide
consistent measures of the quality of provider services.
The results of the BQI Project will be used for two
primary purposes: first, to provide performance information to
physicians that will assist them in improving the quality of care they
are delivering to Medicare beneficiaries; and second, to give physician
performance information to Medicare beneficiaries in order to help them
with physician selection.
The measurement results from these collaboratives
will ultimately provide information to Medicare beneficiaries about the
quality of care physicians treating Medicare beneficiaries provide,
said CMS Acting Administrator Leslie V. Norwalk. It will also provide
valuable performance information to physicians who treat Medicare
beneficiaries, making it a win-win effort for both providers and people
with Medicare.
Currently, the BQI project is being implemented in
four regional collaboratives around the country. The Delmarva Foundation
for Medical Care, one of CMSs quality improvement organizations, has
entered into subcontracts with each regional collaborative.
The CCHRI joins other collaboratives announced by
CMS last month, which include: Indiana Health Information Exchange,
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, Minnesota Community Measurement,
and Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality.
Additional information on each regional
collaborative as well as the HHS Secretarys Value-driven Health Care
Initiative is available at
www.hhs.gov/transparency.
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