Hospital & Health Plan Outcomes vary up to 4 to 1.
- “Choosing the Wrong Health Insurance Could Kill You” A recent study from Yale University concluded death rate in health plans can vary by as much as 4 to 1!
- “CMS star ratings, which are calculated based on factors including customer satisfaction, have no relationship to mortality rates.”[1]
- “Go to the Wrong Hospital and You’re 3 Times More Likely to Die” according to a New York Times article based on outcomes research performed by the Boston Consulting Group
- “…even within the lowest quintile (top 20%) of hospitals, the death rate from Serious Treatable Complications varies [by] 1.7 to 1.”
[1] Choosing the Wrong Health Insurance Could Kill You by Jason Abaluck (Yale Insights 9/02/2020)