Strategic Approach

California’s health industry delivers uneven and frequently sub-standard care and is among the most expensive in the world. Wide, medically unwarranted variation exists in the appropriateness, quality and cost of hospital and physician care. Provider prices also vary dramatically and without regard to the quality of care provided..

Despite these variations, purchasers and patients lack even the most basic comparative information on provider performance. As the number of uninsured and under-insured grows and cuts are made in public health programs, purchasers spend billions of dollars on care that too often is ineffective, delayed, inappropriate and over-priced.

CHCC organizes group purchasers to engage selected health plans, hospitals and physician organizations in collaborative efforts to improve the safety, appropriateness, effectiveness and price of health care services.

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