A survey from The Leapfrog Group asked employers to give their health plans an "A" through "F" letter grade. From those letter grades, Leapfrog calculated the health plans’ average Grade Point Average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale. Health plans received a 2.29 GPA in 2022, a slight decrease from Leapfrog’s prior survey in 2020, which had a 2.57 GPA.
From Medicare's Hospital Compare to ProPublica's Surgeon Scorecard, provider rating systems abound. But are they truly useful? And moreover, are they always accurate?
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Did your hospital make the grade? The Leapfrog Group has unveiled its spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grade, and 823 hospitals got an A.
Based on the 2015 hospital survey, CPOE systems failed to send alerts for 39 percent of potentially harmful drug orders and 13 percent of potentially fatal orders.
"For us humble patients, good stewardship of the technology is about as mundane as life and death," Leapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder cautioned in a Wall Street Journal commentary.
$6.9 million. That’s the error tax “average US employer” pays for hospital errors, given 1,000 admissions in a year for all covered lives. The Leapfrog Group got that number from its new calculator. It’s designed to help employers figure out the hidden tax that comes from getting care from C, D or F hospitals. The […]
