HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT COUNCIL Request for Information; Severity Adjustment Systems [34 Pa.B. 647] To ensure that the Health Care Cost Containment Council (Council) adopts and maintains scientifically credible and cost-effective methodology to collect and disseminate data reflecting provider quality and effectiveness, the Council is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) on severity adjustment systems/methodologies. The purpose of this RFI is to obtain information on risk adjustment/severity adjustment systems that will allow the Council to analyze the performance, reliability, operational cost and financial viability of these systems with regard to meeting the Council's data collection and reporting requirements.
Copies of the RFI are available by contacting Lori Gutierrez, Health Care Cost Containment Council, 225 Market Street, Suite 400, Harrisburg, PA 17101, (717) 232-6787, lgutierrez@phc4.org.
MARC P. VOLAVKA,
Executive Director[Pa.B. Doc. No. 04-195. Filed for public inspection January 30, 2004, 9:00 a.m.]
