Value
The goal of the value portfolio is to help assure that consumers and patients are served by health care organizations that reduce unnecessary costs (waste) while maintaining or improving quality. This is done by developing measures, data, evidence, tools, and strategies that health care organizations, systems, insurers, purchasers, and policymakers use to reduce unnecessary costs while maintaining or improving quality. Strategies include process redesign, leadership and management strategies, organizational and community-wide quality improvement initiatives, legal and regulatory changes, consumer choice, public reporting, incentives, and payment changes. Also, the portfolio conducts and supports methodological work and modeling to improve data and research, and to facilitate its use for policy and management.
Value Case Studies by Year
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
2012
Arkansas Department of Health Launches Public Health Care Reporting Web Site After Participating in MONAHRQ® Learning Network
Maine Health Data Organization Launches Public Health Care Reporting Web Site After Participating in MONAHRQ® Learning Network
Utah Department of Health Uses MONAHRQ® to Create Online Report
GE Uses MEPS Data to Help Consumers Understand Costs of Chronic Conditions—New!
Rhode Island Policymakers Link to AHRQ's State Snapshots on Quality Reporting Web Site—New!
2011
State of Alabama
The Hospital Quality Alliance
Washington State Medicaid
Hawaii Department of Human Services
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
The Scottish Government
Top of Page
2010
State of Oregon
Wyoming Department of Health
Milliman, Inc.
New York Quality Alliance
Virginia Health Information
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Iowa Healthcare Collaborative
Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
Imperial College London
Institute for Health Economics and Policy
State of Maine; State of Tennessee
State of Connecticut
State of Oregon
State of Maine
Top of Page
2009
Suburban Hospital
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
North Carolina Division of Medical Assistance
State of Kentucky—Cabinet for Health and Family Services
New York City Center for Economic Opportunity
California Department of Public Health
State of Maryland
New York State Department of Health
State of Kansas
Iowa Medicaid Enterprise
New York State Department of Health
State of Tennessee
Top of Page
2008
Health Resources and Services Administration
Congressional Research Service
Milken Institute
Public Health Service
Iowa Healthcare Collaborative
University of Iowa College of Public Health
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Humana, Inc.
Premier Inc.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Top of Page
2007
BIOVIRx
Virginia Health Information
Children's Hospital Boston
The Fraser Institute
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Families USA
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
National Center for Health Statistics
State of Alaska
Commonwealth Fund
Top of Page
2006
CHRISTUS® Schumpert Health System
Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute
AARP
State of New Hampshire
West Virginia Senate Transportation Committee
Connecticut Office of Health Care Access
Government Accountability Office
State of Vermont
The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
North Carolina Institute of Medicine
State of Vermont
Top of Page
2005
Indiana State Department of Health
MetroPlus Health Plan
State of Oregon
Premier, Inc.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois
VHA, Inc. (formerly Voluntary Hospitals of America)
State of Delaware
Minnesota Department of Health
Anthem of Virginia
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
State of Wisconsin
Top of Page
2004
The Urban Institute
Consumers' Checkbook
American Hospital Association
Top of Page
Current as of August 2012
Internet Citation:
Impact Case Studies and Knowledge Transfer Case Studies: Value. August 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/about/casestudies/value/index.html
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