Far from perfect competition: A Look into the Market Shares of our Nation’s Leading Health Insurance Companies

Prepared by: Ellen Bloom, Jonathan Mathieu, and John Freedman. Do you know the principal health insurance companies in your state? Take a look at the following highly concentrated markets and see which health insurance companies hold the largest market shares (with the least amount of competition). By now, we have all heard the term “Medicare...Read more

All Politics, Even in Healthcare, Is Local: A look at NRHI’s latest report on healthcare cost variation in 6 regions

Jonathan Mathieu, Ph. D.

March 14, 2019

Analytics and Reporting

Are you looking for a deeper dive into the reasons why healthcare costs vary so widely among states? You may want to pay attention to your local health system. A recent edition of The Hospital Finance Podcast focuses on the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement’s (NRHI) report discussing this issue, “Healthcare Affordability: Data...Read more

Data quality checks: A framework for APCDs

John Bott, MBA, MSSW

July 20, 2018

Data Quality

Inhabiting the space of health care performance measurement for quite some time, I’m convinced the biggest improvement we will make in measurement will not come from better measures. It will come from better data. So, when I was recently asked to examine the capacity of a given APCD to produce performance measures suitable for accountability,...Read more

Social Determinants of Health: Addressing Barriers to Create Healthier Communities

Emma Rourke

July 17, 2018

Analytics and Reporting

What do income, education level, employment, social networks, and housing have in common with with healthcare? Experts widely accept that these factors, known as Social Determinants of Health, can greatly affect a person’s physical and mental wellbeing. The phrase Social Determinants of Health, or #SDOH as it commonly appears on social media, has received a...Read more

FHC President Pens Op-Ed for STAT News Promoting APCDs for All States

Emma Rourke

June 15, 2018

Starting an APCD

As California policymakers take another look at developing an APCD, Freedman HealthCare Principal, John Freedman, discusses ways states are already using APCDs to improve health, create more efficient and effective delivery systems, and spend less in his recent opinion piece, Every State Needs a Database with All Health Insurance Claims, Not Just Some, on STAT News. “States...Read more

AHRQ Funding Opportunity: Making Healthcare Safer, Data-Driven, and Accessible

Mary Jo Condon, MPPA

June 1, 2018

Leading an APCD

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has re-issued a funding opportunity for Large Research (R01) Project applications that focus on AHRQ’s mission or one of three priority areas. AHRQ is a federal agency that aims to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable and affordable. AHRQ focuses on research and works...Read more

The Power of CIVHC’s Partnerships with Change Agents

Emma Rourke

May 30, 2018

Leading an APCD

Jonathan Mathieu PhD, Vice President of Data and Delivery at Colorado’s Center for Improving Value In Health Care (CIVHC), recently wrote a blog post on the power of partnering with others. CIVHC has been a national leader in using data from the Colorado All Payer Claims Database to support partners across Colorado and nationally to...Read more

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Far from perfect competition: A Look into the Market Shares of our Nation’s Leading Health Insurance Companies

All Politics, Even in Healthcare, Is Local: A look at NRHI’s latest report on healthcare cost variation in 6 regions

Data quality checks: A framework for APCDs

Social Determinants of Health: Addressing Barriers to Create Healthier Communities

FHC President Pens Op-Ed for STAT News Promoting APCDs for All States

AHRQ Funding Opportunity: Making Healthcare Safer, Data-Driven, and Accessible

The Power of CIVHC’s Partnerships with Change Agents

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