How does the PHCQA differ from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4)?
The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance is a voluntary coalition of Pennsylvania health care organizations, including providers and insurers, focused on developing a consistent standardized approach to hospital quality measurement. The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council is an independent state agency formed under Pennsylvania statute (Act 89, as amended by Act 14) in order to address rapidly growing health care costs. PHC4 is also tasked with 1) collecting, analyzing and making available to the public data about the cost and quality of health care in Pennsylvania; 2) to study, upon request, the issue of access to care for those Pennsylvanians who are uninsured; 3) to review and make recommendations about proposed or existing mandated health insurance benefits upon request of the legislative or executive branches of the Commonwealth.
