Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Mike Leavitt on Sept. 3 announced that 11 more communities will join 14 others as chartered value exchanges (CVEs)--local collaborations of healthcare providers, employers, insurers, and consumers working jointly to improve care and make quality and price information widely available.
As CVEs, these communities will have access to information from Medicare that gauges the quality of care provided by physicians. 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 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expects to release performance measurement results for the 11 new CVEs by the end of this month. Read the press release.
