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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This report was prepared by the Office of Health Data Analysis, Utah Department of Health, under the direction of the Utah Health Data Committee and the Health Plans Survey Reporting Subcommittee.

Utah Department of Health

Rod Betit Executive Director
Richard Melton Director
Scott Williams Deputy Director

Health Data Committee

Dennis Batey HMO
Lee K. Brinton Small Business
Penny S. Brooke Nursing
Eugene W. Chapman Business
Orrin T. Colby, Jr. Business
Clyde Ford Private Physician
Norma Hansen Consumer
Wen H. Kuo Public Interest
J. Brett Lazar Public Health
Sandra L. Peck Consumer
H. Gary Pehrson Hospital
Ken R. Smith Public Health
Michael J. Stapley Third Party Payer

Office of Health Data Analysis

Denise Love Director
Byron Clawson Information Analyst
Ryley Fogg Research Assistant
Irina Grabovsky Information Analyst
John Kane Information Analyst
Kevin Lertwachara Research Analyst
Zhiwei Liu Programmer Analyst
Luis Paita Research Consultant
Mary Steck Executive Secretary

The Health Data Committee would like to acknowledge the assistance of the following individuals in various stages of the planning and implementation of the survey and the preparation of this report.

Norleen Ackerman
Tom Beggs
Ken Buchi
Tom Carl
Mitch Carter
Barbara Christensen
Kay Dietrich
Ed Furia
Lois Haggard
Robert Huefner
Leon Lamoreaux
Sherry Marcy
James Moore
Julie Pettit
Grace Prodnuk
Gail Rapp
Bob Rolfs
Gene Smith
Betty Streed
Annie Sugden
Kim Wheeler
Wu Xu

Thanks to Health Pages and the National Committee for Quality Assurance for providing comments and suggestions on the format and contents of this report.

Special thanks, also, to the Bureau of Managed Health Care and Division of Health Care Financing/DOH, VA Hospital, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Utah, FHP of Utah, Intergoup of Utah, Intermountain Health Care of Utah, United Health Care of Utah, and DataStat, Inc.