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Benchmarking Data Website Links
Publishes the Clinical Performance Measurement Directory, based on a national survey of group practices and state medical societies, with detailed information on more than 300 performance-improvement programs. Also publishes statistical information on physicians, medical groups and individual health care markets.
CareManagement Science Corp., Philadelphia (215) 387-9401 Offers CaduCIS Net, a free, Internet-based benchmarking tool with publicly available data on lengths of stay, mortality, and costs for hundreds of hospitals. Also provides fee-based consulting products analyzing hospitals’ proprietary data and showing how or why each one can improve.
National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD (301) 458-4636 The National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts National Hospital Discharge Survey, a compilation of utilization statistics from approximately 500 hospitals. Also collects much broader information on specific diseases and characteristics of health care consumers.
Data Advantage, Louisville, KY (502) 587-9500 Prepares hospital benchmarking reports, including pricing, reimbursement, expected costs and data on the top 50 DRGs, a physician clinical performance profiling, home health agency performance rankings, specialty reports, and performance measurement standards for the Joint Commission’s ORYX initiative.
HCIA-Sachs, Baltimore (800) 568-3282 Conducts benchmarking studies on pharmaceutical and medical device use, corporate compliance, overall hospital outcomes, and managed care population assessments; benchmarking information from state database; and forecasts utilization charges.
Health Forum, Chicago and San Francisco (800) 821-2039 Subsidiary of the American Hospital Association, publishes data for market understanding across continuum of care, including proprietary research and public data. Products: the AHA Guide, Hospital Statistics, the AHA Annual Survey Database, the Duet Database, and the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Oakbrook Terrace, IL(630) 792-5000 Through its ORYX initiative, gathers performance measures of a hospital’s choosing in various clinical areas: for example, percentages of low birth-weight babies. Information will be collected on core measures in five areas: acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, surgical procedures and complications, and pregnancy and related conditions, from all accredited hospitals as early as 2002.
Ingenix, Salt Lake City (801) 536-1000 Through subsidiaries CHIPS, St. Anthony’s Publishing, and Medicode provides a wide range of benchmarking information and performance comparisons. Medicode maintains comprehensive pricing databases; CHIPS compares facilities according to costs and utilization patterns, and provides industrywide almanacs and guides; and St. Anthony’s Publishing analyzes and compares coding and reimbursement data.
InterStudy, Minneapolis (800) 844-3351 Offers publications and databases covering regional and national HMO statistics and metropolitan service area profiles and analyses. Also conducts specialized research projects, such as comparative data analysis on a few competing health plans or commissioned research on one organization’s performance.
Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), Englewood, CO (888) ASK-MGMA Conducts annual surveys to benchmark group practice performance. The Cost Survey includes charges and revenue, practice expenses, accounts receivables, staffing ratios and collection percentages. Reports on compensation, benefits and productivity of providers, physician executives and managers.
Quadramed, San Rafael, CA (415) 482-2100 Uses managed care transactional data to create detailed performance reports and analyses. Identifies utilization problem areas to improve quality and cost savings, and analyzes health plan contract performance to improve future contract negotiations.
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