Here are five insights:
1. The codes will cover nearly 1,000 surgeries.
2. This is the first time a company has launched any objective surgeon and hospital scoring for outpatient procedures.
3. The score is a three-digit number based on four years of individual provider outcomes for a specific procedure.
4. Prior to the MPIRICA Quality Score, patients did not have an objective way to select an outpatient provider based on quality.
5. Bellevue, Wash.-based MPIRICA Health works to increase quality transparency.
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