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Health Care: Employers and Individual Consumers Want Additional Information on Quality

HEHS-95-201 Published: Sep 29, 1995. Publicly Released: Sep 29, 1995.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on health care quality issues, focusing on: (1) how consumers use health care performance reports that contain comparative data on the quality of health care providers; and (2) what information consumers consider most important.

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Employee medical benefitsHealth care servicesHealth insuranceHealth maintenance organizationsHealth resources utilizationMedicaidMedical information systemsPhysiciansQuality assuranceSurveysMedicare