Does Public Reporting of Cost or Resource Use Measures for a Consumer

Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference

Slide presentation from the AHRQ 2011 conference.

Does Public Reporting of Cost or Resource Use Measures for a Consumer Audience Make Sense?

Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference

On September 20, 2011, Ateev Mehrotra made this presentation at the 2011 Annual Conference. Select to access the PowerPoint® presentation (1.3 MB). Plugin Software Help.

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Does Public Reporting of Cost or Resource Use Measures for a Consumer Audience Make Sense?

Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
RAND Health

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Outline

  1. Current landscape of measures.
  2. Concerns with current model.
  3. Suggestions for improvement.

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New Jersey Hospital Price Compare

Image: A sample table from a report is shown.

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Medicare Hospital Compare

Image: A list of hospitals is shown.

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Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) Nursing Home Guide

Image: A page from the AHCA Nursing Guide is shown.

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What is a Cost or Resource Use Measure?

Terminology can be confusing:

  • Resource use, value, relative costs, efficiency.
  • "Efficiency" per Institute of Medicine (IOM) is a quality domain.

Distinction between cost & efficiency/value

  • Costs for a given outcome.
  • Health outcomes per dollar.

Cost & Resource Use Measures.

  • Per Member Per Month (PMPM) / patient per year.
  • Per episode costs.
  • Per hospitalization costs.
  • Utilization measures—generic prescribing.
  • Overuse measures.
  • Price transparency—daily price of nursing home.

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Selection Model

Image: The model for the selection of providers is shown.

Berwick et al, 2003, Medical Care.

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Concerns with Selection Pathway

  1. Consumers typically immune to costs.
  2. Higher costs = higher quality.
  3. Lack of trust and understanding.
  4. Not relevant to decisions actually made.

Our view is that in their current form and absent any financial incentives, publicly reporting of cost measures is unlikely to lead to the hoped for consumer response.

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Making Selection Pathway More Viable

 Quality of care for deliveriesHow much you will pay out of your own pocket?
High Quality Hospitals At A Reasonable Price
Hospital A Image: blue star$100
Hospital BImage: blue star$100
Hospital CImage: blue star$100
Other Hospitals
Hospital J Image: black circle$250
Hospital KImage: blue star$250
Hospital L Image: red circle$250
 Click here for details on how quality measuredClick here for how we decide on out of pocket costs

Improvements:

  • Relevant choices.
  • Less is more.
  • Link to quality.
  • Link out of pocket $$.
  • More information.
  • Test, test, test.

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Making Selection Pathway More Viable

 Quality of care for deliveriesHow much you will pay out of your own pocket?
High Quality Hospitals At A Reasonable Price
Hospital A Image: blue star$100
Hospital BImage: blue star$100
Hospital CImage: blue star$100
Other Hospitals
Hospital J Image: black circle$250
Hospital K Image: blue star$250
Hospital LImage: red circle$250
 Click here for details on how quality measuredClick here for how we decide on out of pocket costs

Improvements:

  • Relevant choices.

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Making Selection Pathway More Viable

 Quality of care for deliveriesHow much you will pay out of your own pocket?

High Quality Hospitals At A Reasonable Price

Hospital A Image: blue star circled in red$100
Hospital B Image: blue star$100
Hospital C Image: blue star$100
Other Hospitals
Hospital J Image: black circle$250
Hospital K Image: blue star$250
Hospital L Image: red circle$250
 Click here for details on how quality measuredClick here for how we decide on out of pocket costs

Improvements:

  • Less is more.

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Making Selection Pathway More Viable

 Quality of care for deliveriesHow much you will pay out of your own pocket?
High Quality Hospitals At A Reasonable Price
Hospital A Image: blue star$100
Hospital B Image: blue star$100
Hospital C Image: blue star$100
Other Hospitals
Hospital J Image: black circle$250
Hospital K Image: blue star$250
Hospital L Image: red circle$250
 Click here for details on how quality measuredClick here for how we decide on out of pocket costs

Improvements:

  • Link to quality.

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Making Selection Pathway More Viable

 Quality of care for deliveriesHow much you will pay out of your own pocket?

High Quality Hospitals At A Reasonable Price

Hospital A Image: blue star$100
Hospital B Image: blue star$100
Hospital C Image: blue star$100
Other Hospitals
Hospital J Image: black circle$250
Hospital K Image: blue star$250
Hospital L Image: red circle$250
 Click here for details on how quality measuredClick here for how we decide on out of pocket costs

Improvements:

  • Link out of pocket $$.

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Making Selection Pathway More Viable

 Quality of care for deliveriesHow much you will pay out of your own pocket?
High Quality Hospitals At A Reasonable Price
Hospital A Image: blue star$100
Hospital B Image: blue star$100
Hospital C Image: blue star$100
Other Hospitals
Hospital J Image: black circle$250
Hospital K Image: blue star$250
Hospital L Image: red circle$250
 Click here for details on how quality measuredClick here for how we decide on out of pocket costs

Improvements:

  • More information.

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Making Selection Pathway More Viable

 Quality of care for deliveriesHow much you will pay out of your own pocket?
High Quality Hospitals At A Reasonable Price
Hospital A Image: blue star$100
Hospital B Image: blue star$100
Hospital C Image: blue star$100
Other Hospitals
Hospital J Image: black circle$250
Hospital K Image: blue star$250
Hospital L Image: red circle$250
 Click here for details on how quality measuredClick here for how we decide on out of pocket costs

Improvements:

  • Test, test, test.

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Do Consumer Need to Respond?

Image: A flow chart shows the steps from Purpose, Goals, and Results (Performance) to Measurement for Improvement and Knowledge.

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Making Reputation Pathway More Viable

Care for Myocardial Infarction

 Higher than Average
Rehospitalizations
Hospital A 13.1%
Hospital B 12.2%
Hospital C 12.1%
Hospital D9.2%
Hospital E8.3%
Average Hospital4.1%

Key points:

  • Focus on reputation.
  • Choice not patient relevant.
  • More complex data.
  • Focus on high cost providers.

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Making Reputation Pathway More Viable

Care for Myocardial Infarction

 Higher than Average
Rehospitalizations
Hospital A 13.1%
Hospital B 12.2%
Hospital C 12.1%
Hospital D9.2%
Hospital E8.3%
Average Hospital4.1%

Key points:

  • Focus on reputation.

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Making Reputation Pathway More Viable

Care for Myocardial Infarction (circled in red)

 Higher than Average
Rehospitalizations
Hospital A 13.1%
Hospital B 12.2%
Hospital C 12.1%
Hospital D9.2%
Hospital E8.3%
Average Hospital4.1%

Key points:

  • Choice not patient relevant.

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Making Reputation Pathway More Viable

Care for Myocardial Infarction

 Higher than Average
Rehospitalizations
Hospital A 13.1%
Hospital B 12.2%
Hospital C 12.1%
Hospital D9.2%
Hospital E8.3%
Average Hospital4.1%

Key points:

  • More complex data.

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Making Reputation Pathway More Viable

Care for Myocardial Infarction

 Higher than Average
Rehospitalizations
Hospital A 13.1%
Hospital B 12.2%
Hospital C 12.1%
Hospital D9.2%
Hospital E8.3%
Average Hospital4.1%

Key points:

  • Focus only on high cost providers.

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Key Take Aways

  • In current form cost measures unlikely to have the desired impact.
  • Consider which pathway on which to focus.
    • Impacts presentation, choice of measures, link to quality, and financial incentives.
  • Limited scientific evidence base on consumer response.

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Acknowledgements

  • Co-authors:
    • Judy Hibbard.
    • Arnie Milstein.
    • Peter Hussey.
  • Paper written for AHRQ National Summit on Public Reporting for Consumers.
  • Questions:

Current as of December 2011

Internet Citation:

Does Public Reporting of Cost or Resource Use Measures for a Consumer Audience Make Sense?. Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference (Text Version). December 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/about/annualconf11/hibbard_mehrotra/mehrotra.htm

Current as of March 2012
Internet Citation: Does Public Reporting of Cost or Resource Use Measures for a Consumer : Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference. March 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/news/events/conference/2011/mehrotra/index.html