FLORIDAS TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES

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FLORIDASTRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES
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Floridas Vision

• The 2004 Affordable Health Care for Floridians
  Act
• HB 1629 (2004) and HB 7073 (2006)
• Transparent health care delivery system
• Stakeholder Advisory Council
• Consumer focused websites
• Shopping for health care

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Transparency Initiatives

• Prescription Drugs Retail Prices
• www.MyFloridaRx.com (2005)
• Health Data and Information
• www.FloridaHealthStat.com (2000)
• Hospitals Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs)
• Health Plans
• Emergency Department Care
• www.FloridaCompareCare.gov (2005)
• www.FloridaHealthFinder.gov (2007)
• Physicians
• www.FloridaHealthFinder.gov (2007)

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Building Consensus through Stakeholders

• Agency for Health Care Administration
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• State Consumer Health Information and Policy
• Advisory Council
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• Technical Workgroups

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• State Consumer Health Information and Policy
  Advisory Council Technical Workgroups
• Health Plan
• Health Care Facilities (includes Hospital
  Acquired Infections)
• Physicians Data
• Public Relations
• Health Information Exchange Coordinating
  Committee

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www.FloridaHealthFinder.govCombining the BEST of
Both

• FloridaCompareCare
• Hospitals
• Ambulatory Surgery Centers
• Emergency Departments
• Health Plans
• Comparative Pricing
• Health Outcomes and Performance Measures
• Age Defined
• Consumer Friendly
• Interactive Map

• FloridaHealthStat
• Insurance Programs
• Statistical Health Reports
• Interactive Data Query Tool
• Facility Locator and Mapping Directions
• Consumer Publications
• Senior Health Information
• Prescription Drug Program Information

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• FloridaCompareCare
• 3M Health Information Systems Software for
  risk-adjustment when comparing facilities
• Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  performance measures and quality indicators
• Consumer friendly
• Dynamic database and verbiage
• Consumer Satisfaction Survey

• FloridaHealthStat
• List of licensed health care facilities
• Information on insurance programs such as
  Medicare, Medicaid and KidCare
• Prescription drug programs
• Focus on concerns for seniors
• Consumer publications and Statistical health
  reports

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FloridaHealthFinder.gov

• Hospitals
• Total Hospitalizations
• Average Charges Risk Adjusted
• Average Length of Stay Risk Adjusted
• Readmission Rates Risk Adjusted
• (coming soon - by condition/procedure)
• Complication/Infection/Mortality Rates
• Physician Volume Reporting (coming soon)
• Breakouts by adults and pediatrics
• Hospital Characteristics/Services

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FloridaHealthFinder.gov

• Ambulatory Surgery Centers
• Total Visits
• Average Charges Risk Adjusted
• Facility Characteristics/Services
• Breakouts by adults and pediatrics

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Enhancements

• Improved search abilities including
• Age defined
• 0-17 years
• 18-64 years
• 65 years
• All Adults (Ages 18)
• Facilities descriptions include
• Rural Hospitals
• Critical Access Hospitals
• Primary Stroke Centers
• Statutory teaching hospital designations

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New features

• One stop shop web portal
• New colors and layout with brightly colored
  illustrations, graphics and pictures
• Plain Language Text
• Call to action searches easier to find what
  you need!

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Special additions to the site

• Introduction of
• ADAM Health Care Encyclopedia
• and Symptom Navigator
• Describes over 1,600 diseases and conditions and
  over 3,600 articles
• Provides definitions, symptoms, tests, surgeries,
  diagrams, illustrations
• Easy to use interactive tool with over 300
  symptoms that educate on common causes, treatment
  and medications

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Consumers can simply enter the name or use the
topics list to find a medical condition or
procedure
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Locating a facility can be done by type or
proximity
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Find and compare health plans, facilities,
nursing homes or drug prices with just a click
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Find a comprehensive listing of brochures and
guides
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Links to medical resources assist in finding
additional resources to help consumers find
needed health care information
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Future Plans www.FloridaHealthFinder.gov

• Outreach and Education
• Consumers
• Employers, payers
• Providers
• Media
• Continue long term relationships
• State Consumer Health Information and Policy
  Advisory Council, Technical Workgroups
• Providers Hospitals, Physicians
• Consumers usability study, surveys

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Future Plans

• Continue to follow national standards to enhance
  website and methodology
• Incorporate Present on Admission data into AHRQ
  methodology (complications and hospital acquired
  infections)
• Add Potentially Preventable Readmissions (Florida
  is the beta site with 3M in developing this
  methodology)
• Physician Volume Reporting

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• AHCA Contact
• Beth Eastman
• Interim Bureau Chief, Florida Center for Health
  Information and Policy Analysis
• Agency for Health Care Administration
• Tallahassee, Florida
• [phone]
• eastmane_at_ahca.myflorida.com

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