§280j–2 Public Reporting of Performance Information

Summary

The Secretary must create standard public websites that show performance data about health care quality. The sites must be made for different users (hospitals and other providers, doctors and clinicians, patients and consumers, researchers, policymakers, States, and other stakeholders). Where available, the sites must include information about clinical conditions and, when appropriate, show results for specific providers and break the data down so patients with different conditions can use it. The Secretary must work with the organization that has the contract under section 1890(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395aaa(a)) and other groups to decide what information and formats are most useful. That contracted organization must bring together multi-stakeholder groups to review each website design and tell the Secretary their views. The Secretary should coordinate these sites with other public quality reports (including Title XVIII Medicare measures). Money may be appropriated as needed for fiscal years 2010 through 2014 to carry out this work.