The information being provided includes “tools that assist consumers in choosing doctors and hospitals, maintaining their health and understanding their personal benefits and risks when faced with illness.”
Almost half of health plans reported are also making cost of health services information available to plan members and personal health records which are a collection of health information about individual patients. Another practice by 36 percent of health plans was “pooling data with at least one other health plan to measure and report practitioner performance information to the public.”
The NBCH is a national, non-profit, membership organization of nearly 70 employer-based health care coalitions, representing more than 10,000 employers across the United States. The eValue8™ common Request for Information (RFI) tool is a product of the NBCH. About 250 health plans respond to the annual request for information.
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