Massachusetts law requires the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council to post health care quality and cost information on a consumer-friendly website. The Council is providing data for display on the website for each hospital to review. The data are available through INET, a secure internet-based data exchange facility operated by the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. Located here are the Council's letter to the hospitals and the documents detailing hospital inpatient and outpatient information, the computation of values, and response forms.

Health Care Quality and Cost Council Letter to Hospitals (Word) doc format of hcqcc-letter-to-hospitals-8-20-08.doc

Hospital Inpatient Information (Excel) xls format of hospital-inpatient-information-08-20-08.xls
Included is a listing of inpatient procedures, measures, notes, and data fields included in the hospital's review report

Hospital Outpatient Information (Excel) xls format of hospital-outpatient-information-08-20-08.xls
Included is a listing of outpatient procedures, measures, notes, and data fields included in the hospital's review report.

Response Forms (Excel) xls format of response-forms.xls
The response forms may be used by hospitals to document issues associated with the hospital's data verification report.

Computing Expected Value and Risk Adjusted Value for Charges (PDF) pdf format of computing-expected-values-3m.pdf
Included is a description of the computation used to adjust values based on severity levels.