Alliance Blog

For the first time, the Alliance is reporting statewide data at the county level as part of the Community Checkup. In doing so, the Alliance is bringing a greater level of transparency about the quality of care that all Washington residents receive, in the belief that what gets measured, gets managed. The following charts provide ...

An article in the Puget Sound Business Journal by Valerie Bauman reported on exciting new changes for the Alliance: “The Puget Sound Health Alliance has a new name to reflect its new, broader reach. Now called the Washington Health Alliance, the organization continues its work to track the quality of care at medical groups and ...

Using the Medicaid data from the 2012 Community Checkup, the Alliance has produced reports for medical groups showing their performance on the Community Checkup by race, ethnicity, and language. The purpose of these reports is to help providers who serve the Medicaid population – and not everyone does – better understand potential disparities within their ...

Health Care Authority, Puget Sound Health Alliance to partner on project to make health care pricing more transparent Washington State Health Care Authority Director Dorothy Teeter announced today that the state will partner with the Puget Sound Health Alliance to use a $3.4 million, two-year federal grant to improve health care transparency and augment rate review. ...