Findings on Insurance Reported by Investigators at RAND Corporation (Development of a Medicare Plan Dashboard To Promote Health Equity): Insurance

2023 MAY 09 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Insurance. According to news originating from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “To describe a multistage process of designing and evaluating a dashboard that presents data on how equitably health plans provide care for their members. We designed a dashboard for presenting summative and finer-grained data to health plans for characterizing how well plans are serving individuals who belong to racial/ethnic minority groups and individuals with low income.”

Financial support for this research came from CMS.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from RAND Corporation, “The data presented in the dashboard were based on CMS’ Health Equity Summary Score (HESS) for Medicare Advantage plans. Interviews and listening sessions were conducted with health plan representatives and other stakeholders to assess understanding, perceived usefulness, and interpretability of HESS data. Usability testing was conducted with individuals familiar with quality measurement and reporting to evaluate dashboard design efficiency.Listening session participants understood the purpose of the HESS and expressed a desire for this type of information. Usability testing revealed a need to improve dashboard navigability and to streamline content.The HESS dashboard is a potentially useful tool for presenting data on health equity to health plans.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The multistage process of continual testing and improvement used to develop the dashboard could be a model for targeting and deciding upon quality improvement efforts in the domain of health equity.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Development of a Medicare Plan Dashboard To Promote Health Equity. The American Journal of Managed Care, 2023;29(3). The American Journal of Managed Care can be contacted at: Managed Care & Healthcare Communications Llc, 666 Plainsboro Rd, Ste 300, Plainsboro, NJ 08536, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Steven C. Martino, RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. Additional authors for this research include Megan Mathews, Megan K. Beckett, Denis Agniel, Katrin Hambarsoomian, Denise D. Quigley, Biayna Darabidian, Marc N. Elliott, Sarah Hudson Scholle and Sierra Collins.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2023.89335. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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