The Leapfrog Group is asking its members--large employers and other healthcare purchasers--to sign a letter of support for President Bush’s executive order on healthcare transparency at the request of HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt. By signing the letter of support, purchasers commit through their healthcare procurement strategies to support the following: use of health IT, provision of information on provider quality to enrollees using nationally standardized measures of performance, provision of provider pricing information to enrollees, and means to align incentives for high-quality and cost-effective health care. Leavitt also released a new employer tool kit that Leapfrog helped develop to assist employers in using their purchasing power by collaborating with health plans to advance the goals of the executive order. Read the press release.
