Analysis of Hospital Quality Measures and Web-Based Chargemasters, 2019: Cross-sectional Study.

Kunal N Patel Olena Mazurenko Eric W Ford

Published in: JMIR formative research (2021)

We found that hospital chargemasters display wide variations in prices for medical services and procedures and match variations in quality measures. Further work is required to investigate 100% of US hospital prices posted publicly on the internet and their relationship with quality measures.

Keyphrases

healthcare
acute care
quality improvement
adverse drug
mental health
health insurance
electronic health record