The ACC has announced a new partnership with the nonprofit organization FAIR Health to bring together NCDR clinical measures and insights from FAIR Health claims data to create a comprehensive full-value equation benchmarking tool that looks at both cost and quality, two components of value-based care.

As part of the collaboration, the ACC will contribute NCDR quality data and FAIR Health will contribute cost data from its independent database of privately billed health insurance claims, enabling unique analytic insights to create a comprehensive picture of value to support cardiovascular clinicians and hospitals in working with payers to bring high-quality, cost-effective care to patients.

"A value-based approach to health care requires that you offer not only the highest-quality care at the lowest possible cost but also using the lowest possible consumption of resources," says ACC CEO Timothy W. Attebery, DSc, MBA, FACHE. "As part of this FAIR Health collaboration, the ACC will be able to better understand what it truly costs to manage a patient's care, leading to higher quality and more efficient care."

The collaboration with FAIR Health will initially focus on episodes of care for PCI patients. No patient data will be shared by either organization as part of the initiative.

"By combining quality data from NCDR with FAIR Health analytics drawn from its comprehensive cost data, this collaboration will enable NCDR hospitals to understand and measure the value of cardiovascular care they provide," says Steven M. Bradley, MD, MPH, FACC, co-chair of the NCDR Cost Data Workgroup. "A better understanding of value will help clinicians and hospitals improve cardiovascular care, leading to optimal outcomes for patients."

Clinical Topics: Invasive Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention

Keywords: Benchmarking, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Delivery of Health Care, Quality of Health Care, Patient Care, National Cardiovascular Data Registries

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