Health Care Quality Reporting: A Failed Form of Mandated Disclosure?

Health Care Quality Reporting: Changes and Challenges

The articles that comprise this special edition of the Health Care Financing Review cover a wide range of topics pertaining to the public reporting of health care quality. For many years, CMS and other purchasers have used public reporting of health care quality measures not only for public accountability of plans and providers for the care they provide, but also to assist consumers, health pla...

State-mandated reporting of health care-associated infections in the United States: trends over time.

Over the past decade, most US states and territories began mandating that acute care hospitals report health care-associated infections (HAIs) to their departments of health. Trends in state HAI law enactment and data submission requirements were determined through systematic legal review; state HAI coordinators were contacted to confirm collected data. As of January 31, 2013, 37 US states and ...

Mandated reporting: a policy without reason.

About 40 years ago, Denver pediatrician C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues (1962) “discovered” the battered child syndrome. Although I did not have the privilege of knowing Kempe, I have enough friends who did that I am certain that he was thoughtful, caring, and charismatic. Even without those first-hand accounts, however, this picture could easily have been discerned from Kempe’s influence. As...

Reducing the administrative burden of health care quality reporting.

KEY FINDINGS (1) While quality performance measurement and reporting have the potential to improve the quality of health care and reduce costs, these activities can pose a significant administrative and financial burden on participating hospitals. (2) Hospitals are adopting a variety of strategies to manage quality measurement and reporting demands. (3) Better coordination may be the key to suc...

Measuring and reporting the quality of health care: issues and