Deck 13: Public Release of Information on Quality

Question 1

Rising costs of health care have caused public and private purchasers to

A) Show evidence of the good value for their money
B) Approve only certain administrative costs
C) Report all serious deficits
D) Review all supply chain purchases

Answer 1

Show evidence of the good value for their money

Question 2

____________ is responsible for the widespread availability of information on health plan performance.

A) RAND
B) AHRQ
C) NCQA
D) CMS

Answer 2

NCQA

Question 3

Hospital comparative information on a set of clinical quality measures is publically available through the internet from

A) AHRQ
B) CMS
C) RAND
D) Not available

Answer 3

CMS

Question 4

The organization responsible for hospital accreditation is

A) RAND
B) TJC
C) AHRQ
D) NCQA

Question 5

A CMS report card is available for

A) Dialysis Facilities
B) Physicians
C) Nursing Homes
D) A & c

Question 6

An Issue with performance reporting is

A) The number of measures
B) Credibility of data source
C) Missing data
D) All of the above

Question 7

Providers primary use of public reporting is for

A) Quality Improvement
B) Marketing advantage
C) Higher price justification
D) Competitive edge

Question 8

Public reporting impacts on hospital selection showed

A) Very positive results
B) No consistent effect
C) Great marketing advantage
D) Same selections as in the past

Question 9

Which of the following is not a driver of reliability

A) Sample size
B) Differences among providers
C) Suitability
D) Measurement error

Question 10

One of the challenges of for public reporting is

A) Credibility of data source
B) Health plan information
C) Physician information
D) Hospital information

Question 11

Changes in the organization and financing of care have increased concern over the quality of care.

Question 12

Accreditation status for group practices is not readily available.

Question 13

Public reporting has had an effect on selection of health care systems.

Question 14

Hospital performance on clinical quality measures is available through RAND.

Question 15

Credibility of data source is a challenge in reporting information.

Question 16

On aggregation issue on public reporting is scaling.

Question 17

The final analytic consideration for public reporting is to evaluate whether the results are statistically significant.

Question 18

Comparative data for home health agencies is not available.

Question 19

Comparative data on the performance of individual physicians is generally available to the public.

Question 20

Health plans performance is available through TJC.