What are HEDIS® metrics?
The Health Plan Employer Information Set (HEDIS®) is a set of standardized performance measures designed to ensure that purchasers and consumers have the information they need to reliably compare the performance of managed health care plans. The performance measures in HEDIS® are related to many significant public health issues such as cancer, heart disease, smoking, asthma and diabetes. The metrics are voluntarily collected and reported by numerous health care organizations and systems throughout the United States. By embracing this existing set of metrics, the performance of Navy Medicine may be compared directly to the performance of health care organizations outside of the military health system. HEDIS® metrics meet the needs of Congress and DoD Health Affairs who are presented with comparative data on the services and are called to justify the cost of our care. From a clinical perspective, HEDIS® metrics are rather liberal and are best seen as a “starting point” for a broader clin
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