The Leapfrog Group Announces Spring 2024 Hospital Safety Grades
On May 1, The Leapfrog Group announced the Spring 2024 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. The grades reflect preventable medical errors, accidents, injuries, and infections that together kill more than 500 people a day in the United States.
The Leapfrog Group announces 2023 Top Hospitals and Top ASCs
The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit watchdog organization
that rates hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) on their
commitment to patient safety and quality has announced its 2023
national list of Top Hospitals and Top ASCs.
Press Release – Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, Fall 2023
The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of the nation’s most influential employers and purchasers of health care, driven in Florida by the Florida Alliance for Healthcare Value, has announced the Fall 2023 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades.
Karen van Caulil, Florida Alliance President and CEO, Elected as New Board Member to The Leapfrog Group
The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization of employers and other purchasers focused on health care safety and quality, announced the election of three new members to its board of directors: Janet Lucas-Taylor, Senior Director Employee Benefits, Northwestern Mutual; Susan Sheridan, MIM, MBA, Founding Member, Patients for Patient Safety; and Karen van Caulil, PhD, President & CEO, Florida Alliance for Healthcare Value.
Employers Face “A Nightmare of Delays” in Obtaining Their Claims Data (But We Are Finally Seeing Some Progress in Florida!)
A recent online article reasons that “employers are losing trust in the companies they hire to run their health plans.” While most employers have not publicly probed the insurance companies’ role in rising healthcare costs, with new transparency rules requiring hospitals and health insurers to publicly disclose prices they have negotiated for many services, employers are starting to ask questions. Karen van Caulil, President and CEO of the Florida Alliance, was interviewed and quoted in the article.
Press Release – The Florida Alliance for Healthcare Value Joins Nation’s Mental Health Organizations to Call for the System-Wide Prioritization of Equitable Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Care
Today, The Bowman Family Foundation released an important report for the healthcare industry. The report highlights many of the challenges people face trying to obtain high quality behavioral health care. The Bowman Family Foundation report reinforces many of the troubling trends that continue to hamper widespread access to affordable and high-quality mental health and substance use care.
Press Release – Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, Spring 2023
The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of the nation’s most influential employers and purchasers of health care, driven in Florida by the Florida Alliance for Healthcare Value, has announced the Spring 2023 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades.
Florida Alliance Announces
2023-2024 Board of Directors at
Annual Meeting
Orlando, Fla. (March 29, 2023) – The Central Florida Health Care Coalition, Inc. d/b/a Florida Alliance for Healthcare Value announced and installed the 2023-2024 board of Directors and Executive Committee and Officers during the Annual Meeting. This meeting was held virtually. read full press release
How Employers Can Achieve a Fair Price in Hospital Negotiations
Dr. Karen van Caulil, President and CEO of the Florida Alliance for Healthcare Value, and Mike Thompson, President and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, shared strategies that self-funded employers can implement to achieve lower prices in hospital negotiations in a recent article in HealthPayerIntelligence.
December 2022 E-Newsletter
2022 was a very busy, productive, and impactful year at the Florida Alliance. This year we tackled key issues like mental health and substance use chronic disease management, transparency, the cost of drugs and medical care, patient safety, and evidence-based best practices. The December issue of our newsletter includes information on our 30th Annual Conference […]
