Priority Health Implements Cave Consulting Group's Marketbasket System.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Priority Health, a nationally recognized health plan, has licensed Cave Consulting Group's (CCGroup) Marketbasket System(TM) software to support its efforts to make healthcare costs and services even more transparent to its members. The CCGroup Marketbasket System is a nationally recognized accurate, accepted, and actionable software system for reporting medical condition services and costs. "One of Priority Health's goals is to make life easier by providing personalized, actionable information to members when they need it," stated Dr. John Fox, Medical Director for Priority Health. "Our members often have little access to independent, objective information on the cost of medical care for health problems or treatment options. Priority Health wants to change this, and help members make more informed healthcare decisions." A key component of this transparency effort is the accurate and reliable reporting of medical condition process of care measures. "The CCGroup Marketbasket System is designed to reduce common case mix and statistical issues for many medical care process of care methodologies," stated Dr. Douglas Cave, President of CCGroup. "Recent research shows that many measurement methods have difficulty in accurately identifying condition-specific process of care measures and the less efficient and effective physicians. The CCGroup Marketbasket System method and software allows our health plan clients to more accurately and reliably identify efficient and effective physician practice patterns," said Dr. Cave. "Priority Health needs an accepted and actionable analytic system that more accurately measures physician care practices, such as the CCGroup Marketbasket System," said Dr. Fox. "We need to show members a valid and reliable view of physicians overall affordability, as well as how physicians treat specific medical conditions." Priority Health also is using the CCGroup Marketbasket System for supplying medical condition-specific information to its Web-based cost estimator, which will allow a Priority Health member to estimate the cost of securing medical services for themselves and their families. The goal of these initiatives is to help Priority Health members make more informed healthcare decisions and improve their health status. The CCGroup Marketbasket System examines medical condition, episodes of care that are formed using the Cave Grouper grouper, common name for a large carnivorous member of the family Serranidae (sea bass family), abundant in tropical and subtropical seas and highly valued as food fish. (TM). About Priority Health Priority Health (www.priorityhealth.com) is a nationally recognized health plan company based in Michigan. It provides more than 470,000 members with a broad portfolio of products including HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, , PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there , HSA HSA Health Savings Account (US) HSA Human Serum Albumin HSA Human Services Agency (Nevada) HSA Health Services Agency HSA Health and Safety Authority (Ireland) and HRA HRA Health Reimbursement Arrangement HRA Health Risk Assessment HRA Housing and Redevelopment Authority HRA Human Resources Administration HRA Health Reimbursement Account HRA Housing Revenue Account . Priority Health is rated number one by the National Business Coalition on Health in 2005 and is consistently ranked among the nation's best health plans by the NCQA NCQA National Committee on Quality Assurance, see there and U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report Weekly newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. U.S. News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973) to cover important domestic events; he founded World Report in 1945 to treat world news. The two magazines were merged in 1948. . About Cave Consulting Group CCGroup (www.cavegroup.com) is located in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. . The company is focused on improving the efficiency and quality in the healthcare delivery system. CCGroup is dedicated to improving the accuracy, acceptance, and actionability of efficiency and quality measurement capabilities for health plans, HMOs, TPAs, employers, physician groups, and disease management companies. Clients represent over 46 million members and 396,000 physicians nationwide. |
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