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Leading an APCD

Make Sense of Your Data for Cost and Utilization Analysis

Jonathan Mathieu, Ph. D.
March 6, 2024
Analytics and Reporting, Leading an APCD
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

State All Payer Claims Database Advisory Committee Reflections Part II: Achieving the Vision of Improving APCDs as a Tool in Healthcare Cost Reform Efforts

Maureen Mustard and John Freedman
March 23, 2022
Leading an APCD
This is Part II of a comprehensive review of the history, work, and recommendations of the State All-Payer Claims Database Advisory Committee (SAPCDAC ) and its efforts to expand the use and efficiency of APCD data. Part I lays out the history of APCDs and Part II focuses on the work of the committee.  ...Read more

State All Payer Claims Database Advisory Committee Reflections Part I: The Birth and Evolution of All-Payer Claims Databases (APCDs)

Maureen Mustard and John Freedman
March 10, 2022
Leading an APCD
Introduction In August 2021, the State All-Payer Claims Database Advisory Committee (SAPCDAC) completed its report to the Department of Labor (DOL) on recommendations for improving All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) regulations with a goal of expanding and standardizing data for state APCDs, a move intended to make APCDs more effective in tracking national health trends. This...Read more

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

John Freedman, MD/MBA
April 23, 2021
Analytics and Reporting, Leading an APCD
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

FHC co-hosts Webinar on No Surprises Act for APCDs

John Freedman, MD/MBA
January 14, 2021
Leading an APCD, Starting an APCD
On Monday, January 11, John Freedman, President and CEO, described the implications of the Omnibus Reconciliation Bill’s provisions for APCDs for a webinar audience of over 250 health experts representing 47 states.  Topics included the timeline for key provisions, emerging opportunities for APCDs, composition of Labor’s Advisory Committee regarding a format that states may use...Read more
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