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Thursday Thoughts with Kyle Russell, VHI Director of Strategy and Analytics

Jonathan Mathieu, Ph. D.
January 7, 2021
Analytics and Reporting
In this first Thursday Thoughts of 2021, FHC Senior Health Care Data/Policy Consultant Jonathan Mathieu talked to Kyle Russell, MDA, Director of Strategy and Analytics at Virginia Health Information (VHI). In his current role, Kyle oversees the analytical reporting and strategic planning for all data collection programs administered by VHI, which houses the state’s All-Payer...Read more

New federal funding offers assistance to all states interested in starting, expanding an APCD

Linda Green, MPA
January 5, 2021
Starting an APCD
A massive new federal funding opportunity for all payer claims databases (APCDs) offers every state in the nation up to $2.5 million to launch or expand an APCD. Further, by favoring applications that meet certain requirements, the federal grant program offers APCDs new incentives to standardize data collection processes, partner with other states, attract ERISA...Read more

FHC Principal Consultant, Tanya Bernstein, Elected to NAHDO Board of Directors

Linda Green, MPA
January 5, 2021
Leading an APCD, Starting an APCD
We are pleased to announce that Principal Consultant Tanya Bernstein has been elected to the National Association of Health Data Organization’s Board of Directors for a three year term.      For the past six years, Tanya has helped guide NAHDO’s annual meeting Planning Committee in its development of dynamic presentations that reflect emerging thinking...Read more

Health Claims Data Helps States Pinpoint Citizens at Risk for COVID

John Freedman, MD/MBA
December 22, 2020
Analytics and Reporting
Using the APCD, Colorado authorities can plan vaccine distribution, states can identify potential future hot spots, and more.   Colorado’s Center for Improving in Health Care (CIVHC) has released a groundbreaking analysis that uses the state’s all-payer claims database (APCD) to identify those at highest risk should they contract COVID-19. CIVHC analysts used CDC risk criteria,...Read more

New CPT Codes for COVID-19 Care Will Support APCD Analysis

Emma Rourke
September 24, 2020
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality
In early September, the American Medical Association (AMA) published two additional Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes specifically addressing medical services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the total number of new COVID-related CPT codes to 8. The first new code, 99072, was added in for health care practitioners across the country hoping to curtail...Read more
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