A report, “State Report Card on Transparency of Physician Quality Information,” from the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) sheds light on the problem many consumers face with trying to assess the level of quality that physicians deliver. There is very little information available publicly on the quality of physician care, yet the federal government and commercial health plans have been collecting data on quality measures for years. “There are commercial websites that provide some information on the quality of physician care, but there’s often a fee to pay for the full report, and the objectivity of the data on those sites has been questioned by many researchers,” the report says. In this new report,MinnesotaandWashingtonstate got the highest grade (an A),Californiagot a C, and all others got Ds or Fs.
