Executive Committee Charter

Approved May 2008

CCHRI Executive Committee Purpose

The Executive Committee will provide expertise, guidance and decisions regarding all aspects of the strategic direction and implementation of all CCHRI projects and reporting.

California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative Goals

The mission of CCHRI is to collect and report comparable, reliable performance data. Members of the collaborative work together to:

• Collect and report standardized, reliable health plan and provider performance data.
• Promote the use of accurate and comparable performance measures.
• Create efficiency in data collection leading to reduced burden and cost to all participants.
• Provide a source for expert advice to consumer reporting entities.

Executive Committee Role and Responsibilities

Decision making process:

• Each member has one vote.
• To conduct business requiring decisions, at least four voting members of each stakeholder group holding seats on the Executive Committee (see below) must be present. Voting may occur during teleconferences, but if at least 2/3 of those members present do not vote in favor of or against a motion, the vote will be taken via an e-mail poll of all voting members.
• In the event of a tied vote, the Committee Chair will cast the deciding vote.
• PBGH reserves the right to veto a decision if it conflicts with contractual obligations to entities such as CMS/Delmarva or other contracted vendors, or causes undue financial risk to PBGH.

The Executive Committee is charged with the following:

• Provide strategic direction to ensure that CCHRI lives up to its mission and continues to provide value to its stakeholders.
  • identify priorities and goals
  • ensure alignment with other related California and national initiatives as appropriate
• Charge CCHRI work groups and committees and approve work group / committee charters and chairs:
• Reporting Committee
• HEDIS Committee
• CAHPS Project Committee
• Patient Assessment Survey (PAS) Project Committee
• California Physician Performance Initiative (CPPI) Steering Committee
• Make decisions regarding proposed measure sets and methodology, reports and data use.
• Approve selection of vendors. Subgroups will be formed to evaluate vendors and make vendor selection recommendations to the Executive Committee as appropriate.
• Make decisions on the development, content, and distribution of clinical quality, patient experience, and cost-efficiency measurement reports.
• Ensure that the methodologies used will not violate any privacy and/or anti-trust laws, and to assure that processes are in place that provide appropriate safeguards against unlawful use of project results or data files.
• Ensure adherence to CCHRI Reporting Principles.
• Provide input on issues identified by CCHRI staff or consultants.
• Identify and approve funding sources and budgets for CCHRI projects.

Executive Committee Commitment

Each Executive Committee member agrees to the following:

• Will represent their stakeholder constituency, not their individual organization in all deliberations and voting.
• Will attend each of the Executive Committee meetings to be convened as needed. It is anticipated that many of these will be held via conference call.
• If unable to attend a meeting the member will designate an alternative representative from their organization to actively participate and vote on their behalf.
• Will review meeting materials prior to meetings, if the documents are provided to the group at least 24 hours before the meeting.

Executive Committee Representation

Representatives will be distributed evenly among health plan, provider, and purchaser/consumer stakeholders.  Voting members of the Executive Committee will be composed of:

• One representative at the senior executive (clinical) level from each participating network model health plan, currently numbering six.  Each of the six participating plans will hold a permanent seat and it will be up to each plan to identify the senior executive.
• One representative each designated by CAPG, CHA, CMA, and Kaiser Permanente, plus two at-large physician leader elected by their peers through a nomination and voting process conducted among all physician groups participating in at least one CCHRI measurement project (e.g., PAS).
• Six purchaser/consumer representatives designated by PBGH.

Executive Committee Roster

CCHRI Senior Manager
Cathie Markow, PBGH
cmarkow@pbgh.org