Employers and policymakers are looking for ways to encourage competition among health plans, thus lowering costs and improving quality. Employers hope to foster competition among health plans by creating standardized measures of quality that supplement the traditional benefits and cost information employees use to compare plans and make choices. This DataWatch examines employees' interest in standardized measures of plan performance. Results from a survey of Massachusetts state employees show that cost and benefit information receive high rankings, but certain plan performance information does not.E MPLOYERS THAT USE standardized health plan performance information to compare the quality and cost of plans they purchase may want to pass this information along to their employees. Whether employees will find plan performance information useful in comparing and choosing health plans, however, is largely unknown.In this DataWatch, we present the results of a pilot study of employees' information needs and discuss the implications of the results. The purpose of the study was to answer the following questions: What information is essential to the most employees in choosing health plans? What information is essential to the fewest employees? What information do employees say is not useful or somewhat useful in choosing health plans? 1 How do employees'
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