Patients not accessing physician quality data
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, October 23, 2008
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Credentialing Resource Center Connection!
When MSPs help collect quality data on practitioners via methods such as FPPE and OPPE, accrediting agencies require medical staffs to review the information and apply it to privileging decisions. When public Web sites collect quality data on health plans, hospitals, and practitioners patients are not required to review the data—and it turns out most don’t.
A new study reveals that only 30% of Americans have seen health care quality data in the past year and only 14% have based decisions on it, according to The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Click here to read more information about consumers' views of patient safety and quality information.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Credentialing Resource Center Connection!
Comments
0 comments on “Patients not accessing physician quality data ”
Related Products
-
Credentialing Resource Center
CRC is now available online! Receive updates up to four days earlier than the print version and save on shipping costs.
-
Credentialing Resource Center Connection
National credentialing and privileging expert Sally J. Pelletier, CPCS, CPMSM, delivers useful and timely information in her...
-
Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider
The Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider provides the latest 'how-to' techniques, and practical 'working tools' to...
-
The Satisfied Patient, Second Edition:
This fully updated book illustrates how focusing on patient satisfaction can better your organization, reduce the potential...
-
Physician Entrepreneurs: The Quality Patient Experience
A quality patient experience directly impacts physician scores and rankings with private insurers and government agencies...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Identify potential Medicaid RAC target areas
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- Capturing all necessary codes for IUD insertion and removal can be challenging
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- E-mailed
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Q&A: Follow CMS' coding guidelines when using modifier -25
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- CMS has reformulated payments for some bilateral procedures
- New conflicts of interest create new challenges
- Q/A. One injection code or two?
- ED-to-inpatient transfers are flawed with safety gaps
- Searched