HCBI Quality Council

The Office of Health Strategy (OHS) formed the Healthcare Benchmark Initiative (HCBI) Quality Council to recommend a core set of clinical quality, patient safety, consumer experience, and over-and under-utilization measures or benchmarks. Council members include healthcare providers, health insurance experts, patient advocates, consumer representatives, state agencies and other experts from across the healthcare and related sectors in Connecticut.

The Council will recommend benchmarks and measures that:

Eliminate health disparities among people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals;

Ensure maintenance and improvement of healthcare quality, and;

Assess primary care, specialty and hospital provider, and public and private payer performance for the OHS Healthcare Benchmark Initiative, Primary Care Spend Targets, and HCBI Quality Benchmark.