Friday, May 16, 2014

New HHS data show quality improvements saved 15,000 lives and $4 billion in health spending

Read HHS press release here

This is a win and good trend for institutional quality and the associated reduction of hospital readmissions for all reasons.  

Now, the question in my mind is how to quantify the other side of the quality spectrum; namely, the practical meaning of increases in health plan quality scores represented by HEDIS and STARS.  

In other words, are we measuring the availability of data or actual quality of healthcare delivery?

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