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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/index.html
January 01, 2024 - Reports
Collections of professional and academic publications, reports, and National Action Plans … Health Affairs
Medical Liability
National Academy of Medicine Reports
National Action Plans … medical errors and promoting patient safety, measuring health care quality, consumer assessment of health plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/resources/letter-emergency-contact.docx
May 12, 2022 - like to have information for at least one other person we can contact during an emergency to share our plans … --
· If we experience an emergency, we will make every attempt to contact you and inform you of our plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports.html
December 01, 2016 - examples of web-based comparative reports for consumers on the quality and costs of care from health plans … Types of Comparative Report
Physicians
Surgical care
Hospitals
Health plans
Nursing homes
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/qtag-presentation.pdf
September 01, 2015 - measures for
children, continued
What States did
- Worked with State-level stakeholders (health plans … Many States (for example, AK, FL, IL, MA, ME, NC, PA)
used reports to
1) Compare performance of plans … agencies to
national benchmarks
2) Identify variation in practices’ performance across
regions, plans … learned
- Quality monitoring activities can provide powerful
incentives for networks and health plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/helpful-resources/planning/Define-Your-Project-Goals.html
December 01, 2019 - the following:
Raise employees' awareness and understanding of differences in the quality of the plans … organizations available to them;
Encourage health benefits managers to identify and offer health plans … providers that perform well on the CAHPS measures;
Help Medicaid recipients identify and select the plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/media/printed-report.html
September 01, 2019 - EXAMPLE: A Brochure for Medicaid Beneficiaries
Title: A Guide to Michigan Medicaid Health Plans: Quality … Michigan Department of Health and Human Services publishes a brochure with summary scores for Medicaid plans … process is automatic (i.e., if consumers do not have to take any action to re-enroll in their current plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/cahps/faq/index.html
January 01, 2019 - Choosing questions to measure the quality of experience with medical care providers and health care plans … Psychometric properties of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) 2.0 adult core survey … Psychometric properties of a group-level Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) instrument … The CAHPS Health Plan Survey Database no longer collects or reports data for commercial health plans. … To adjust the results to account for this difference in populations across plans.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/sustaining-antibiotic-slides.pptx
September 01, 2022 - Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Ambulatory Care
Sustaining
1
Objectives
Develop sustainability plans … Sustaining
Sustainability Plan
Initial Sustainability Plan
An approximate outline of the month to month plans … practicewide meetings
Review with senior leadership and practice members
Subsequent Sustainability Plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2022-hp-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Insurance
Program (CHIP) Chartbook
What Enrollees Say About Their Experiences With Their
Health Plans … Table 2. 2022 Survey Versions For Enrollee Populations
Population Survey Version Number of Plans … Health plans choose whether to participate in the
database. … Medicaid or CHIP health
plans or enrollee populations. … There are also times when certain health plans are excluded from
percentile calculations.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/find3.html
December 01, 2012 - Waivers may include a wider range of service types than can be provided under State plans. … Availability of Home and Community Based Services
The services that may be offered under State plans … Availability of State Plan HCBS
Table 1 shows the availability of select HCBS through State plans. … "Targeted case management" is an optional service under State plans, offered to individuals who do not … In total numbers, most services are used more often under State plans than waivers.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/cahps/about-cahps/index.html
April 01, 2024 - range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system, including their care from health plans … develop surveys that ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences with health plans … professionals, public and private purchasers of healthcare, healthcare accreditation organizations, health plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/guide/web6.html
December 01, 2017 - Use care plans to improve care over time and across settings. … Use care plans to improve care across settings and over time. … Slide 20: Using Care Plans to Improve Care Over Time and Across Settings
Using Care Plans to Improve … Care Over Time and Across Settings
Slide 21: Types of Care Plans: Observations from the Field … Develop care plans for patients who are frequently hospitalized.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/dental/index.html
March 01, 2018 - The CAHPS Dental Plan Survey is a standardized questionnaire that asks adult enrollees in dental plans … organizations interested in assessing, improving, and reporting on the quality and value offered by dental plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/practice-survey-part2-mw.pdf
August 03, 2018 - the clinical quality of care provided by your practice or its clinicians publicly reported by
health plans … your practice, how often – if ever – are these data or reports about clinical quality from
health plans … your practice receive better contracts (for example, better payment,
preferred status) with health plans … did your practice or the individual clinicians in your practice receive additional
income from health plans … your practice receive better contracts (for example, better payment, preferred status) with health plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/tcd/about.html
July 01, 2021 - This measure can be easily aligned across state Medicaid programs, health plans, and health systems, … QMETRIC found for some health plans, available QI and case management resources are directed at other … For children who have dual enrollment in other health plans, their claims may not be complete since some … The new ICD-10-CM measure specification was then provided to each of three partner Medicaid health plans … Health plans have more ready access to their own claims and can use the measure on a more rapid basis
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/communicate/trust.html
December 01, 2022 - the public is wary, and legitimately so, about the sources of data on the performance of health care plans … Since many health plans, hospitals, medical groups, and other providers advertise their quality, consumers
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/order.html
November 01, 2018 - Ordering Health Care Organizations in a Quality Report
In what order will different health plans … Ordering by Performance
Studies of reporting strategies point to clear advantages to rank ordering plans … can identify three cost tiers—high, medium and low—and within each tier, present quality ratings of plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-impact/tools/index.html
October 01, 2023 - A profile of Idaho, one of North Carolina's four partner States, outlining its accomplishments and plans … profile of Maryland, one of North Carolina's four partner States, outlining its accomplishments and plans … profile of Montana, one of North Carolina's four partner States, outlining its accomplishments and plans … profile of West Virginia, one of North Carolina's four partner States, outlining its accomplishments and plans
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/overview/background/corebackgrnd.pdf
January 01, 2013 - Lower scoring plans reported an
average receipt rate of 67 percent, and higher reporting plans reported … Plans in the Northeast region of the United States have reported higher rates than plans in the
South … plans at 13.21 percent and the 90th percentile plans at 58.33 percent.14
Concerns about this measure … The measure is reported to NCQA by 55 health plans across 17 States. … The core
instrument is currently reported to NCQA by 38 health plans.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/holtropstudysnapshot.pdf
December 01, 2016 - offered CM and optimal structuring of CM have become increasingly
important issues to providers, health plans … compared these costs to those incurred by similar patients
enrolled in CM programs managed by health plans … approach relies more on clinical
information and personal knowledge
of the patient, while health plans … emphasizing risk scores and
providers focusing on clinical information and personal knowledge:
Health plans