Acknowledgments | Measuring the Quality of Pennsylvania's HMOs | MCPR 2000

MCPR 2000 - Measuring the Quality of Pennsylvania's HMOs - Acknowledgements

PHC4 wishes to acknowledge and thank the individual HMOs and Pennsylvania hospitals that participated in the data collection and verification process, as well as the leadership of the Managed Care Association of Pennsylvania, the Blue Cross/Blue Shield-related plans and the Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania. Their cooperation, advice and constructive criticism were invaluable to the Council in the completion of this report.

PHC4 also wishes to thank the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Secretary of Health Robert S. Zimmerman, Jr., the Pennsylvania Insurance Department, and Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken, for their assistance in compiling this report.

Thanks are also extended to the following subcommittees of PHC4 for their contributions to this report:

Data Systems Committee, chaired by Bernard K. Murray;
Education Committee, chaired by Catherine A. Gallagher;
Payor Advisory Group, chaired by Leonard A. Boreski; and
Technical Advisory Group, chaired by David B. Nash, MD, MBA.