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Team E
Diane Kazmierski | Patricia DeStefano | Beth Eastman | William Dahlem
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Report Out
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Bill Dollum: Okay, I am Bill Dollum. I'm with AHCA and our team was also from AHCA who is Beth Eastman. And then from a private sector side, the other part of the tag team here was Trisha Stefano and Diane Kisversky and Dr. Martin is also here as a facilitator as well. So, we came up with our notions here of transparency. Provide information that's necessary for consumers to make the optimal choice for their health care. Just throw in one sentence kind of deal. They kind of imply the other things as well. |
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AHCA's role -- we start with appropriate data collection but really, what Martha is saying, well, before you even start collecting data you have to think about what you're trying to get at, what you're trying to show. So we have to identify what is the important data elements. That's just some things about national standard, etc., etc. |
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Continue the relationship of the appropriate, I call them stake holders but the term is stake holders value. This is where we've been involved with our work groups, our advisory council and with that relationship it helps come up with identifying what is the important data to collect. Once we have the data collected, whether it's ours or somebody else's, we can to decide what is the appropriate display in the state and what information should be put out there, how it should be put out there. |
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And, particularly, to make it something that consumers can use and find understandable. Communication and education, continue with consumer's facilities providers. Guiding principles -- this is the one Linda Bart mentioned and I think it's pretty interesting that nobody would hide information. That in this ideal world of transparency, that everybody who's a holder of information would be able to provide that to everybody else. |
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There would be nobody who wouldn't be in a situation with certain health plans would hold on to information that would not be provided to facilities, for example. That anything would be open. That's our ideal. That's when something I know that I'm choking multiple cycles of drafts. I think what we're getting at here, maybe you could explain a little more. That there's no such thing as achieving quality or we decided how we're going to present data and that's it. |
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That's it's a continuous cycle and all that TQM stuff is from 30 years ago.
[Laughter]
Bill Dollum: This is the case where you got to really use it. Where consumer's say, "This is what I'm interested in." We present and then they go, "Well, that quite wasn't what I was interested in." And then it continuously cycles around until we come up with and it never stop, really, process the show that's ideal for collecting and processing data. But we got into a long discussion about data adjustment, severity adjustment. |
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Essentially, if you're going to be presenting data that compares facilities, providers, health plans then it has to be a level playing field and it has to be fair to everybody and the way you achieve that fairness by doing the risk of adjustments and other adjustments, for that matter and, finally, again in principle, be the set of rules for what is to be collected. |
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That' where we see AHCA coming in here, perhaps above all rather than just collecting it but deciding on what should be collected, how it should be collected. That's it. Thank you very much!.
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