Compare Lehigh Valley Hospital and Commonwealth Health Regional Hospital and conduct a comparative analysis. Use module resources to understand how to conduct the comparative analysis on selected hospitals. Analyze the comparative performance of selected hospitals pertaining to patient survey ratings quality metrics. How does the patient survey quality metric impact the government and private insurance reimbursement? Why is the patient survey one of the essential quality metrics for value-based care? Did underserved/vulnerable populations participate in the patient survey? Why is their inclusion essential? How do complication and death rate quality metrics impact the government and private insurance reimbursement? How do the complication and death rates impact value-based care? Analyze the comparative performance of selected hospitals pertaining to the unplanned hospital visits quality metric. How does the unplanned hospital visits quality metric impact the government and private insurance reimbursement? What does the unplanned hospital visits quality metric indicate about value-based care? Explain your findings from your comparative analysis of the two hospitals. Include the national benchmarks for the quality metrics you have used for your analyses. How do value-based care quality metrics impact healthcare stakeholders such as insurance providers, hospitals, and patients? Do the mentioned three quality metrics or any other quality metrics defined by the CMS include underserved/vulnerable populations' challenges related to value-based care?
