The phrase "alternative quality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different types or levels of quality that serve as substitutes or options.
Example: "The product offers an alternative quality that appeals to budget-conscious consumers without sacrificing essential features."
Alternatives: "substitute quality" or "different quality option".
In Massachusetts, Blue Cross Blue Shield has created an "alternative quality contract" that gives hospitals a fixed budget for a patient, with additional rewards for improving the quality of care.
Indeed, doctors providing care to about 77 percent of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts members have signed on to such "alternative quality contract" agreements, giving them an incentive to prevent readmissions, cut out unnecessary procedures and otherwise reduce spending.
Massachusetts has had a model for global payments since 2009, when Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state's biggest health insurer, began experimenting with an "alternative quality contract" that pays groups of doctors and hospitals a set fee to work as a team in caring for patients.
The latest independent evaluation of the Blue Cross program, published online by the journal Health Affairs in July, showed that groups covered by alternative quality contracts spent 1.9 percent less on average on medical care than similar Blue Cross groups without such contracts in the first year and 3.3 percent less in the second year.
Under the Blue Cross approach, groups of doctors and hospitals (the vast majority were previously paid on a fee-for-service basis) have chosen to enter "alternative quality contracts," which pay them a negotiated total sum to provide all the care their Blue Cross patients will need over the course of a year.
We have proposed the minimum angle of a reduced basis as an alternative quality measure of orthogonality, which may be intuitively more straightforward than the orthogonality defect.
This paper computes and compares alternative quality-adjusted price indexes for new cars in Spain in the period 1990 2000.
The alternative quality-to-price scoring method, where money values are assigned to different quality levels, is a better alternative.
Thus, the differences between the alternative quality-adjusted price indexes proposed come from the different estimates of (beta ) in each specification.
Based on these practical issues, we suggest alternative quality-of-care indicators that can easily be monitored, and may be relevant because of their association with morbidity and mortality in large observational studies.
The lack of guidance and the absence of an internationally recognized system for evaluation of generic products, such as the WHO prequalification system set for vaccines, HIV, TB and Malaria medicines, are major obstacles impairing the search for alternative quality-assured options to the innovator product.
