New Additions to COVID-Specific Codes

First New Codes for COVID-19 Vaccines have been Issued The AMA has announced nine new codes for COVID vaccination – 3 for the vaccines themselves and 6 for administering them to a patient. The codes are unique to each manufacturer of the vaccine: The highly granular codes should allow detailed tracking of vaccination efforts...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

Thursday Thoughts with Harvard Professor of Health Care Policy, Bruce Landon

Emma Rourke

November 5, 2020

Analytics and Reporting

Welcome back to our Thursday Thoughts blog series, where we talk with healthcare industry experts about how COVID-19 has shaped their professional lives over the past several months. This week, we have a conversation with Bruce Landon, MD, MBA, MSc, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, a professor of medicine at the...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

Thursday Thoughts: with Kim Paull, MPH

Freedman HealthCare Staff

September 17, 2020

Analytics and Reporting

Welcome back to “Thursday Thoughts,” our bi-weekly interview series where we interview experts in the fields of healthcare research and policy. This week, FHC Project Manager Lisa Tse sits down with Kim Paull, MPH, to discuss how COVID-19 has, and will continue to shape her work in Rhode Island. Kim is the Director of Data...Read more

Thursday Thoughts: with Brian Robertson, PhD

Freedman HealthCare Staff

September 10, 2020

Data Quality

For this installment of our Thursday Thoughts series, we talk about how the survey world has been affected by COVID-19 with Dr. Brian Robertson of Market Decisions Research. Brian, who is the Vice President of Research, provides technical leadership for all Market Decisions Research projects, including research design, survey structure, sampling methodologies, data collection methods,...Read more

Thursday Thoughts: with Amy Hawn Nelson, PhD

Freedman HealthCare Staff

September 3, 2020

Data Quality

In this second installation of Thursday Thoughts, FHC Senior Consultant Jessie Hole talked with Amy Hawn Nelson, PhD to share how her work has been shaped by COVID-19. Amy is Research Faculty and the Director of Training and Technical Assistance at Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP), an University of Pennsylvania initiative that focuses on...Read more

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New Additions to COVID-Specific Codes

Health Claims Data Helps States Pinpoint Citizens at Risk for COVID

Thursday Thoughts with Harvard Professor of Health Care Policy, Bruce Landon

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

Thursday Thoughts: with Kim Paull, MPH

Thursday Thoughts: with Brian Robertson, PhD

Thursday Thoughts: with Amy Hawn Nelson, PhD

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