NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 19, 2023)
Healthcare Bluebook, the leader in healthcare transparency, today announced the industry’s first comprehensive set of quality and appropriateness of care metrics that provides outcomes-based guidance to navigate patients to the highest value healthcare services.
Since 2007, Bluebook's powerhouse of provider cost and quality data analytics has been helping healthcare providers understand, predict, and improve their performance, while offering healthcare purchasers a clear picture of how reliably hospitals and physicians deliver the best outcomes and cost-effective appropriate care across the continuum.
As the number of surgical procedures increased and began migrating from the inpatient to outpatient setting, Bluebook recognized the need to adjust its outcomes methodology.
The enhanced metrics create the industry’s first comprehensive set of provider quality analytics including:
“Supporting patients earlier in their care process by providing both cost and quality information, along with AOC scores, helps eliminate unneeded care, reduces patient risk, and navigates more patients to cost-effective, high-quality care regardless of where that care occurs,” explained co-founder and chief innovation officer Bill Kampine.
“Now patients can make apples to apples comparisons on cost and quality for common critical procedures, like joint replacements and spinal surgeries, that can be delivered in both the inpatient hospital or ambulatory surgical care settings,” said Kampine.
Bluebook’s intuitive color-coded navigation guide has been its hallmark, making it easy for users to understand cost estimates and quality rankings for doctors and facilities. Today, Bluebook uses one platform to present medical quality and cost navigation, plus guidance to lower cost comparably effective prescription medications.
Healthcare Bluebook helps consumers, employers, healthcare providers and payors make smarter healthcare choices. Powered by the industry’s largest healthcare quality and cost dataset, Bluebook’s intuitive suite of solutions delivers insights that facilitate movement from low-value to high-value healthcare services and prescription medications. Combined with proven engagement methodology, Bluebook’s innovative solutions decrease healthcare and pharmacy costs, improve quality patient outcomes, and provide greater price predictability.
For more information on Bluebook Comply, Bluebook Rx, Bluebook CareConnect, and Bluebook Engagement Solutions, visit healthcarebluebook.com or Contact Us Today to schedule a demo.