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

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 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

FHC President pens Op-Ed promoting use of state APCD data for vaccine rollout

This weekend, Freedman HealthCare CEO, John Freedman, published an Op-Ed in MedPage Today discussing how state’s all-payer claims databases (APCDs) can help policymakers target COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Our nation recently marked one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. President Biden marked the anniversary by announcing an accelerated pace for getting the nation vaccinated...Read more

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