title: Providers: hold yourself accountable before payers, others do it for you.
abstract: Financial performance data: Drilling down into comparative data can help health care providers quickly identify where costs are out of line. See samples of easy-to-read graphs you can adopt for your organization for everything from broad hospital measures to specific physician ordering practices.
mesh_terms: D001130:Arizona; D019985:Benchmarking; D002641:Chicago; D003363:Cost Control; D005375:Financial Audit; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000191:economics / Q000628:therapy; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards*; D017721:Hospital Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011357:Product Line Management; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care