Overview

The Addressing Cost Efficiency Conference highlighted the learning and approaches from the CQC 2008 Efficiency Collaborative and a Medi-Cal plan efficiency initiative.  Conference attendees learned from collaborative participants and a national expert about successful strategies for engaging physicians, approaches to identifying inappropriate use of clinical resources, and interventions that work to reduce overuse.  The conference focused on reducing inappropriate use of the Emergency Department, but also offered examples and ways to address cost efficiency in other domains.

View conference agenda

View conference materials

View resources for identifying avoidable ED visits:

• List of avoidable ER visit diagnosis codes from a Medi-Cal state ER collaborative
• Download an algorithm for classifying ED visits from The Center for Health and Public Service Research at NYU (select "NYU ED Algorithm" on the navigation pane on the left)

About the Program

Visit the Efficiency Collaborative section to learn more about this program designed to help physician organizations reduce unnecessary use of clinical services.