Health Care Quality

"Public Reporting of Quality Information on Medicaid Health Plans." Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Allison Barrett, and Rebecca Nyman, Health Care Financing Review, spring 2007. Transparency through public reporting of quality data is key to achieving the Institute of Medicine's vision for 21st century health care. This article reviews the status of states' voluntary public reporting of Medicaid managed care quality data. Twenty-one states have made plan-level data publicly available online, although the data are sometimes thin, with few measures reported, hard to access, and old. Although use of Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) and Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) data has promoted more standardization in quality measurement across states, the authors conclude that CMS could do more to leverage the power of public reporting to improve the Medicaid program nationally by increasing the visibility of HEDIS data already being collected.

UpcomingConferences

On May 16 to 20, our experts will be sharing their findings at the 67th annual American Association for Public Opinion Research conference. Please join us to hear methods updates related to assessing preschoolers, conducting web-based surveys, using cell phones in survey research, surveying people with disabilities, and other topics. See a list of Mathematica presenters. Read more about the conference.

Please join us in Orlando from June 3 to 5 for our presentations at the annual AcademyHealth meeting. The conference provides opportunities to hear over two dozen staff presentations on cutting-edge research, methods, and policy issues. View the roster of presenters.