Designed to support affordability initiatives, to identify instances of overuse and inefficiency, and to highlight cost-saving opportunities.
HealthPartners’ Total Cost of Care and Resource Use (TCOC) framework addresses one of the most fundamental problems related to population health: rising health care costs. It is a full-population, person-centered measurement tool that accounts for 100% of the care provided to a patient. Additionally, it supplies a reporting suite to support multiple levels of analysis.
HealthPartners has been developing health care cost of care and resource use measures since 1995. The
Our measures were reviewed and deemed credible by the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) independent statistical consultant.
Tools help providers, payers, employers, researchers, and government entities to evaluate the costs and resources used to treat varying populations.
Three analytic packages for implementing Total Cost of Care and Resources Use.
Videos presented by Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI)
An in-depth look at TCOC
A detailed review of the building blocks of resource use measurement
Reporting suite overview
TCOC is widespread throughout the United States
- Population-based model
- Attributable to medical groups for accountability
- Includes all care, treatment costs, places of service, and provider types
- Measures overall performance relative to other groups
- Illness-burden adjusted
- Drillable to condition, procedure, and service level
- Identifies price differences and utilization drivers
MN Community Measurement – Health Care Cost & Utilization
November 2019MN Community Measurement – Health Care Cost & Utilization
November 2018NRHI: Data is the Spark, Collaboration is the Fuel
November 2018NRHI Healthcare Affordability: Untangling Cost Drivers
February 2018Maine Health Management Coalition receives NQF Quality Award using HealthPartners’ TCOC
May 2016HealthPartners’ Medical Director Participating in CMS Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network
May 2015Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement – Building Transparency
April 2015AJMC – Making Measurement Meaningful
May 2015AJMC – Tracking Spending Using a Distributed Data Model
September 2014A commentary on Measuring and Assigning Accountability for Healthcare Spending
August 2014PQC and NQF affordability webinar on HealthPartners’ TCOC
July 2014HealthPartners’ Medical Director addressing FTC – Examining Health Care Competition
March 2014Consumer Reports - TCOC vs. Quality
October 2012