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Become a Participating Organization

As the Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project continues to gain momentum and recognition, many organizations are interested in supporting the Project's goal and activities. There is no cost to becoming a participating organization and your time commitment will depend on your level of interest and activity.

The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project will advance its goal by:

• Advocating for the perspective of purchasers and consumers at the local and national level for the definition, testing, and implementation of a comprehensive national health care performance measurement set consistent with the Disclosure Goal and principles.
  
• Supporting research efforts to develop measures to fill known gaps, test measures, and document their value in meeting national health care improvement aims.
  
• Supporting efforts to streamline reporting and regulatory burdens driven by the growing number of uncoordinated local and proprietary measurement sets and regulatory requirements.
  
• Supporting the adoption and dissemination of performance results and promoting their integration into private, state, and federal benefit plan designs, thereby increasing consumer and purchaser demand for national performance measures and information.

Becoming Involved: Consumer Organizations, Health Care Purchasers, and Health CAre Consultants and Brokers

Eligible consumer organizations include:
Organizations that advocate on behalf of health care consumers, which do not have a primary business interest in the delivery of health care products and services.

Eligible health care purchasers include:
Health care purchasers, including coalitions, purchaser organizations, and individual employers which do not have a primary business interest in the delivery of health care products or services.

Eligible health care consultants and brokers include:
Organizations that are responsible for assisting purchasers with the design, vendor contracting, and implementation of health care benefit programs

A Participating Organization of the Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project must:

• Agree to support the Disclosure Project's goal.
  
• Be willing to advocate at the local and/or national level for the adoption and implementation of a comprehensive national health care performance measurement set consistent with the Disclosure Project's goal and principles.
  
• Agree to be included in our list of Participating Organizations, which will be posted on our website and distributed as an attachment to various publications, and correspondence that will be produced periodically by the Project.

  If after reading the following information, you would like to become a Participating Organization, please email your contact information to Jennifer Eames at jeames@pbgh.org.
  
  We also suggest that you consider the following methods to support the Disclosure Goal:
  

• Share information on the Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project and national performance measures with your staff, beneficiaries, members, and peer organizations.
  
• Purchasers are encouraged to share national performance measures with their beneficiaries and adopt strategies to encourage employees to use higher quality providers and assure that superior providers are rewarded for their performance based on national measures.
  
• Consumer groups are encouraged to inform and educate their constituencies about national performance measures and promote effective use of such measures.
  
• Join the Consumer or Purchaser Council of the National Quality Forum (NQF) and take an active role in influencing NQF's work to define a national performance measurement set. For information on how to join the NQF, visit their web site at www.qualityforum.org.
  
• Actively support efforts by federal, state, and local government entities to adopt and implement national performance measures.
  
• Encourage regulators, policymakers, health plans, and benefit consultants to adopt and promote national measures and take actions to relieve reporting and regulatory burdens on providers who publicly share information based on national performance measures.