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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Leapfrog Group announced today 14 hospitals in Florida have been named to its 2022 national list of Top Hospitals and 4 Florida ASCs have been named to the 2022 Top Ambulatory Surgery Centers.

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 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades.

The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions awarded Miami-Dade County Public Schools the 2022 Employer/Purchaser Excellence Award during their 2022 Annual Forum on November 8, 2022.

The quest to deliver better cancer care–with better outcomes and patient experience–is not a one-size-fits-all journey, as seen in panels during the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) Payer Exchange Summit, held in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia.

Embold Health, a Florida Alliance affiliate member, announced a partnership with Florida Alliance employer member The Independent Colleges and Universities Benefits Association, Inc. (“ICUBA”) to provide its members with insights into physician performance and improve the quality of healthcare for their entire community.

The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalition’s “playbook” will help employers use hospital price and quality transparency data from Sage Transparency, a free online service that displays data from a variety of sources on hospital prices and quality.

On August 30, 2022, Kimberly Ramos, Director of Benefits at The Mosaic Company, and Florida Alliance Board Member presented Tommy Inzina, CEO of BayCare Health System, Inc., with the “Dr. Jack Mahoney Healthcare Hero Award” for his leadership in establishing Tampa Bay Thrives.

The Florida Alliance for Healthcare Value, Florida’s business coalition on health, is holding it’s 27th Annual “Best of the Best” in person on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, as part of Validation Institute’s Health Benefits Nation Conference.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 raises the bar for employer-sponsored health plans to pay fair prices for services provided. The law, along with the transparency in coverage rule issued in November 2020, means employers won’t have any excuses for not knowing whether they’re paying reasonable prices.

The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchasers announced its slate of new officers at its 2022 Leadership Summits held June 27-28 in Detroit.

Health insurers and employers are pushing back against requests to increase hospital prices by as much as 15%.