by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
The CommonWealth Fund has released its 'Scorecard on Local Health System Performance' which provides comparative data to assess the performance of health care systems. The scorecard Lists 43 indicators on local health system performance. Healthsprocket has 4 of the indicators posted as lists which contain the top three hospital referral regions for the indicator.
 
Healthsprocket Lists on Performance Indicators:

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
This week three lists were posted reporting results from an mcol e-poll. The poll surveyed healthcare stakeholders on healthcare business trends. 
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
The Obama Administration's rule that health insurance plans must cover contraceptives for women free of charge, and subsequent controversy regarding an exemption for Catholic employers, has dominated the news cycle lately.  Healthsprocket was not an exception, there are four new lists discussing contraception and contraception coverage.
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
A new list on the ten best managed-healthcare stocks for 2012 was posted this week. The list, taken from thestreet.com, contains the top rated managed-healthcare stocks as rated by the Street's value-focused stock rating model.
 
You can check out the list here

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
This month Healthgrades released its Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence Study which independently assessed the quality of care at the nation’s 5,000 hospitals. In doing this, Healthgrades was able to rank the top cities for hosptial care. Baltimore, Maryland was ranked number one. 
 
You can see the top ten cities for hospital care in the healthsprocket list Top 10 Cities for Hospital Care

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
Thomson Reuters has released its list of the top 15 health systems in the nation. Their list is broken up into 3 groups of 5 by health system size. Healthsprocket has a list posted for each of these groups. The list is broken up by size as follows:
 
Large: more than $1.5 billion total operating expense
Medium: $750 million–$1.5 billion total operating expense
Small: less than $750 million total operating expense
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL