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With the rise of value-based care, more healthcare spending is occurring through non-claims payments. To support states in collecting this data, the APCD-Council and National Association of Health Data Organizations developed the NCP Data Layout™.  The NCP harmonizes non-claims payment data collection across states, which supports cross-state comparisons and eases data submitter burden. The NCP…Read more

High quality primary care is the foundation of our nation’s healthcare system[i]. Research points to the essential role of primary care clinicians and services in improving access, quality, life expectancy, and affordability.[ii],[iii]  While the Milbank Memorial Fund’s Health of US Primary Care Scorecard finds the overall primary care workforce has increased slightly in recent years,[iv]…Read more

On Wednesday, May 29th, 2024, the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) Ecosystem, in partnership with the Rhode Island Workforce Transformation Team, publicly released the EOHHS Health Workforce Dashboard. The Dashboard enables policymakers, healthcare providers, educators, and others to review and engage with data that provides a detailed understanding of the…Read more

California uses three measures to assess different components of social risk, although they do so in distinct ways. Healthy Places Index (HPI) is a strength-based measure with the greatest number of variables but is only computed for California and is not regularly updated. The healthier the place, the higher the index. Area Deprivation Index (ADI)…Read more

Are you interested in collecting supplemental benefit information provided by payer health and wellness programs such as gym memberships and over-the-counter drugs, and discounts on eyeglasses and hearing aids in your All-Payer Claims Database (APCD)? Take advantage of CMS’s new guidance and technical documentation for reporting supplemental benefits. Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAO) have been reporting…Read more

How much do hospital prices vary? Is California more expensive than the rest of the country? Freedman HealthCare (FHC) produced a set of swarm plots to display the variation in commercial hospital prices, meaning the expected payments that hospitals received for care paid for by commercial health plans. Each dot represents a hospital, with blue…Read more