Health Care Excel

Health Care Excel of Kentucky or HCEK is a not-for-profit organization that serves clients in the private sector and federal and state governments. HCEK commits to providing total quality to its clients through a highly qualified staff, innovative ideas and attention to cost containment.

For more than a quarter century, HCEK has objectively evaluated health-care quality, clinical appropriateness and outcome assessments. We design customized management solutions and develop appropriate educational programs to significantly improve the delivery of health services. As a Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, HCEK specializes in providing quality-improvement consultation.

HCEK's primary objective is to produce products that will improve health care, health status and health outcomes in a cost-contained environment: leading quality; driving value. The organization has a long history of providing Medicare medical peer review.

Seven core principles guide the organization:

• Integrity 
• Independence
• Capability
• Quality
• Emphasis on product usability
• Cost-benefit focus
• Focus on improving the system.