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11 Communities Working to Improve Quality and Value of Health Care Designated as Chartered Value Exchanges |
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From HHS News and Events: HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today welcomed 11 more community collaborations to a growing national movement to build a health care system where consumers, providers and payers make decisions based on the value and quality of care. These communities will join 14 others as Chartered Value Exchanges (CVEs) -- local collaborations of health care providers, employers, insurers, and consumers working jointly to improve care and make quality and price information widely available. "Local public-private collaboration is essential to achieving a health system based on quality and value," Secretary Leavitt said. "We are recognizing the work these communities have already done to improve care. And we are giving them new tools to advance their efforts to implement -- at the local level -- a value-driven health care market." Virginia Health Care Alliance, Glen Allen, Va. As Chartered Value Exchanges, these communities will have access to information from Medicare that gauges the quality of care that physicians provide to patients. These performance measurement results may be combined with similar private-sector data to produce a more comprehensive guide to the quality of care in these communities. The HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is making available performance measurement results for the initial 14 CVEs this week. CMS expects to release performance measurement results for the 11 new CVEs by the end of September, 2008. In addition, these communities will join a nationwide Learning Network sponsored by the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Note: All HHS press releases, fact sheets and other press materials are available at http://www.hhs.gov/news.
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