Useful Links
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- The APCD Council
- Center for Studying Health System Change
- The Commonwealth Fund
- CMS Hospital Compare
- Leapfrog Group
- Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council - My Health Care options
- National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO)
- National Committee for Quality Assurance
- National Quality Forum
- Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
Bringing Transparency to Medicare - Wall Street Journal Coverage
In a series of articles under the theme of "Secrets of the System", the Wall Street Journal examines Medicare's databases and "shows how they can be used to expose potenial fraud and waste". Read the articles by clicking on the respective link.
- In Medicare's Data Trove, Clues to Curing Cost Crisis - 10/25/10
- Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid By Medicare - 10/26/10
- Dividing the Medicare Pie Pits Doctor Against Doctor - 10/27/10
- A Device to Kill Cancer, Lift Revenue - 12/7/10; How the numbers were crunched - 12/8/10
- Top Spine Surgeons Reap Royalties, Medicare Bounty - 12/20/10
- Using a Computer to Fight Medicare Fraud - 12/22/10
- Confidentiality Cloaks Medicare Abuse - 12/22/10; How the Numbers were crunched - 12/22/10