Webcast: Here’s how consumers can evaluate physician quality

In November, the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) will publish methodology that will allow consumers, health plans, provider organizations and others to better calculate complication rates for individual physicians.

This has the potential to empower consumers, payers, and providers to do their own evaluations of physicians based on doctors’ rates of potentially avoidable complications (PACs). A PAC is any event that affects the patient negatively and is potentially under the physician’s or hospital’s control.

AHCJ members are invited to a webcast at 1 p.m. EST on Nov. 12 with François de Brantes, HCI3’s executive director, who will explain the methodology and preview the results of the organization’s third annual State Report Card on Transparency of Physician Quality Information.

Read more about the State Report Card on Transparency of Physician Quality Information.

About the speaker 

François de Brantes, M.S., M.B.A., is executive director of the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3), a not-for-profit company that designs and implements innovative payment and benefit plan design programs. HCI3 works with states, employers, health plans and provider organizations, as well as national consultanciesto advise them on payment and delivery system reform.

Previously, de Brantes was the program leader for various health care initiatives at GE’s corporate headquarters, responsible for developing and implementing GE’s Active Consumer strategy.

He has has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and Health Affairs and is frequently quoted in national media including The New York Times. He has also published two books, the latest being “The Incentive Cure: The Real Relief For Health Care.”

Joseph Burns, AHCJ’s core topic leader on health insurance, will moderate the webcast.