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Payment Reform Series No.1 - Moving From Quality to Value: Measuring and Controlling the Cost of Health Care

Publication June 9, 2017

Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement

This issue brief describes why the industry must move beyond common but insufficient methods of measuring cost of care, and toward total cost of care, and what types of entities are well-positioned to lead this work. It presents five core components of measuring, analyzing, and reporting total cost, and presents the challenges associated with this task.

From Claims to Clarity: Deriving Actionable Healthcare Cost Benchmarks from Aggregated Commercial Claims Data

Resource November 1, 2016

Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement

Over three years, Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives, working collectively through the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, have demonstrated the ability to assess, refine and standardize raw regional healthcare cost data and use it to establish meaningful, local practice level reports and comparisons within and between healthcare markets. This work advances healthcare cost transparency, a necessity for solving the healthcare cost crisis. This report summarizes key findings.

Data Sharing Requirements Initiative: Collaborative Approaches to Advance Data Sharing

Publication June 9, 2017

Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network

The report is designed to help leaders - including providers, payers, and employers - who are working, or wish to work, in alternative payment models (APMs) to understand what information they will need from outside their organization and the processes involved in obtaining that information. It is also an aid for third party entities, including vendors, policymakers and others that provide access to the data sources and data sharing processes that support APM efforts.