This article presents estimates of the proportion of the U.S. population that had mental health benefits in 1999, the extent of their coverage, and the proportion enrolled in health plans subject to the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA). Over three-quarters (76 percent) had mental health...

Senior hospital executives responding to a 2005 national telephone survey report that Hospital Compare and other public reports on hospital quality measures have helped to focus hospital leadership attention on quality matters. This article notes that the executives also report increased...

Senior hospital executives responding to a 2005 national telephone survey report that Hospital Compare and other public reports on hospital quality measures have helped to focus hospital leadership attention on quality matters. This article notes that the executives also report increased...

This article presents estimates of the proportion of the U.S. population that had mental health benefits in 1999, the extent of their coverage, and the proportion enrolled in health plans subject to the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA). Over three-quarters (76 percent) had mental health...

The National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative (NVHRI)—recently renamed the Hospital Quality Alliance: Improving Care Through Information—is a nationwide, collaborative effort to make the quality of hospital care more transparent to professionals and consumers. This report...

On May 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care, and Mathematica sponsored a one-day conference on the impact of hospitals’ publicly reported quality measures on hospitals themselves. Conference goals were to explore how hospitals achieve...