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Require providers to report measures of health care costs and quality
"Require hospitals and providers to collect and publicly report measures of health care costs and quality, including data on preventable medical errors, nurse staffing ratios, hospital-acquired infections, and disparities in care and costs."
Sources: Obama health care plan
Subjects: Health Care, Transparency
Health care reform bill includes requirement for more disclosure
Updated: Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | By Angie Drobnic Holan
Democratic plans for health care reform include new requirements for hospitals to report on health care-associated infections that develop in hospitals and demographic information associated with such infections.
The secretary of Health and Human Services is also authorized to make the information publicly available over the Internet. The secretary should also make an annual report to Congress with recommendations for reducing such infections.
This proposed new authority is a concrete step toward fulfilling this promise. So we rate it In the Works.
Sources:
U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, HR 3962 - the Affordable Health Care For America Act
U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, HR 3962 - Section by Section
Kaiser Family Foundation, Analysis of Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), accessed Nov. 4, 2009
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