{"id":9596,"date":"2017-11-10T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aroxjblog.am\/?p=9596"},"modified":"2017-11-10T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:15:00","slug":"healthcare-prices-quality-information-remain-elusive-in-most-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroxjblog.am\/en\/healthcare-prices-quality-information-remain-elusive-in-most-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Prices, Quality Information Remain Elusive In Most States"},"content":{"rendered":"

The move to require healthcare prices to be made public and inform patients about quality is going virtually nowhere in most U.S. states, a new report shows.<\/a><\/p>\n

This leaves most consumers lacking the \u201cinformation they need to make informed healthcare choices\u201d when such price and quality of care data isn\u2019t provided, Altarum<\/a> and Catalyst for Payment Reform<\/a>\u00a0say in their new analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to find that most states miss the mark in providing consumers with usable price and quality information,\u201d Altarum<\/a><\/span> \u2019s Center for Value in Healthcare director Fran\u00e7ois de Brantes<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

Only Maine scored above a letter grade of \u201cF\u201d in \u201cboth price and quality information,\u201d de Brantes said. \u201cThat means that in 49 out of 50 states, consumers are basically in the dark when it comes to making value-based healthcare decisions<\/a><\/span> .\u201d<\/p>\n

To be sure, the move to value-based care is escalating and states aren\u2019t keeping up. Increasingly, employers and health insurance companies are no longer paying doctors and hospitals based on the volume of care delivered in a fee-for-service system.<\/p>\n

Instead, they are moving providers to value-based models that base reimbursement on the quality of care delivered. Large insurers including Aetna, Anthem, Cigna and UnitedHealth Group report more than half of their payments are now made via value-based models.<\/p>\n

States earning a passing grade on price transparency did so because they have \u201crobust laws promoting and mandating price transparency that offer consumer-friendly, free websites with meaningful price information,\u201d Altarum and Catalyst executives said. Those states are Maine and New Hampshire, which each earned an \u201cA\u201d while Maryland and Oregon each received a grade of \u201cB.\u201d Colorado, Vermont and Virginia received price transparency scores of C.<\/p>\n

When it comes to quality, Altarum and Catalyst graded states in part on whether they had free websites for consumers containing quality measures that provided meaningful information. Only California and Minnesota earned an \u201cA\u201d letter grade.<\/p>\n

States should be providing information on whether doctors are doing what \u201cguidelines say they should\u201d as well as what kind of outcomes physicians provide and the kinds of experiences their patients are having, authors of the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole point of this report is to determine whether states are ensuring that all citizens have access to information to help them make good healthcare choices,\u201d Suzanne Delbanco<\/a>, executive director of Catalyst for Payment Reform said in an interview. \u201cStates can really play an important role but very few have stepped up to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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