From the RWJF news release today "Medicare pays some California hospitals four times more than others to care for patients with similar chronic illnesses, with no gain in quality or patient satisfaction, according to a study by the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School.
The ground-breaking study, released today by the California HealthCare Foundation, looks at the performance of individual California hospitals in managing seriously ill patients over a five-year period. The findings, along with a comparison of data from hospitals in five regions in California—Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego—also were published today in a Web Exclusive edition of the journal Health Affairs. Concurrently with the release of the Health Affairs article, the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care project is publishing performance measures for California hospitals on its Web site."
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