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Date:9/6/2007

y, Youth Care and Youth Wellness. Each commercial health plan's individual and family premium for a standardized HMO plan is also published. A "Provider Network" section gives board certification rates in New York and satisfaction with claims processing in New Jersey. For both states, the report card gives the percentage of each health plan's members who are satisfied with their physician.

New York hospital performance is reported for nine conditions and nine procedures. Mortality rates are given, when available, as well as hospital performance on process of care measures and characteristics of hospital care such as length of stay. The report also provides a composite score for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical infection prevention, as well as Medicaid reimbursement rates and average "self-pay" charges for each condition and procedure. For the first time, the report card provides information from Leapfrog Group surveys covering computerized prescription order entry, ICU staffing and use of safe practices.

"We hope that this expanded report card helps satisfy the regional business community's increasing need for information on health care performance and cost," says Laurel Pickering, Executive Director, New York Business Group on Health. "We also hope that our publication of this data will help stimulate the region's hospitals and health plans to do better."

Report Card Shows That New York, New Jersey Stack Up Nationally, But

Have Large Variation in Quality, Cost

"Our report card found that New York and New Jersey do well when compared with national averages," says Clare B. Bradley, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, IPRO. "But there is a significant amount of variation both within and between counties."

New York's HMOs do as well as or better than the national average on 19 of 23 measures where nationwide comparisons exist. For New Jersey, where 19 measures can be compared
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