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"In some contracts, we pay for each day and other have caserates [by procedure]," said Dr. Richards L. Snyder, senior vice president of healthu services forCenter City-based . Snydef said IBC does provide members with estimates on whattheid co-payments will be for procedures along with quality "report information on its Web site. The compangy is also working with medical specialty groups to expane quality data for more typesof procedures. In Snyder said, IBC is participatinyg in the Pennsylvania Health CareQualityy Alliance, a coalition of state hospitals and Blue Cross plans workinf together to develop a uniformm statewide approach to hospital quality and cost measurements.
"Three or four yearse ago, it was like the Wild West with no he said, referring to the release of health-care qualituy reports. "Today there is more standardization around how you measurew and attribute care to hospitals and About twoyears ago, Aetna -- the region'e second largest managed-care company after IBC -- launched its own transparencty program aimed at providing "physician-specific cost, clinical qualitu and efficiency" data to The service is being rolled out in phases by the Connecticut-based health insurer.
Aetna spokesman Walt Cherniak said the company provide s price information to membersfor 270,0009 physicians in 25 states and the Districf of Columbia, but the program has not reached the Philadelphia market yet and is not slatedx to do so this year.
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