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Analytics and Reporting

Make Sense of Your Data for Cost and Utilization Analysis

Health policy managers need to understand how to transform claims data into information for various audiences. Using widely accepted categories and groupings, analysts can spotlight opportunities to reduce healthcare spending and rates of growth using language that a broad audience can understand. The Problem Roughly half of states use an All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) to...Read more

FHC Develops CHCF Report on Investment in Primary Care Detailing Strategy for California

The California Health Care Foundation recently engaged Freedman HealthCare to develop a technical report on primary care investment data collection, reporting, and enforcement mechanisms. CHCF seeks to inform California stakeholders about national strategies to measure primary care investment in conjunction with accountability tactics to increase the proportion of the health care dollar directed toward primary...Read more

KC Health Collaborative: Bringing the KC Community Together to Address Social Drivers of Health

FHC knows that health system transformation starts with bringing stakeholders together to identify shared priorities and work towards measuring progress, while also using data to inform these conversations. FHC is pleased to support KCHC in its development of a Community Information Exchange and Health Equity Learning and Action Network. ___________________________________________________________________   Like many regions across...Read more

FHC Senior Consultant Talks the Future of Telehealth and Lower Healthcare Costs in Op-Ed

FHC Senior Consultant, Mary Jo Condon, recently published the following Op-Ed, Does the Long-Term Future of Telehealth Mean Lower Healthcare Costs?, in MedTech Intellegence. Read the full piece below.    Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, use of telehealth was more of an outlier in the healthcare industry, but the pandemic and ensuing quarantines forced rapid implementation of...Read more

FHC President Discusses Hospital Non-Compliance in Health Transparency Legislation

This piece on hospital price transparency non-compliance originally appeared on healthcare innovation, authored by Rajiv Leventhal. Having hospitals and insurers disclose their prices for items and services they provide has been a key federal healthcare initiative of late, but already, reports of non-compliance have dominated much of the conversation. As of Jan. 1, 2021, new regulations...Read more

FHC President John Freedman: The Health Crisis that Didn’t Go Away (WV Gazette-Mail)

This Op-Ed was originally published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and worldwide lockdowns, the opioid epidemic is raging unabated. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 1999, nearly 850,000 people in the United States have died from drug overdoses. About 500,000 of those deaths...Read more