‘Our philosophy always has been to find the best providers. Even if you pay more, your total costs are lower because your outcomes are better’, says Phil LeFevre, VP at Denniston Data Inc. (DDI). ‘However, when you get into the price transparency data, you find you don’t actually have to pay more because there’s no correlation between quality and price inside the networks.’

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‘What makes the process most efficient is to calculate a Smart Score that measures quality, fixed based on annual quality scores, against the dynamic price that is changing from month-to-month in the machine-readable files (MRF).’