Understanding the Opioid Epidemic to Improve Pain Management According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) it is estimated that nearly 650,000 people have died from an overdose involving opioids, leading to the worst drug overdose epidemic in Read more…
Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) is excited to welcome two new members to its executive team. Twanisha Parnell joins as CIVHC’s new Chief Financial and Administrative Officer and Liz Mooney comes aboard as the Vice President of Read more…
The Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) & The Data Mart In June 2021, Colorado passed SB21-75 and became the first state in the country to allow a nonpartisan board to review high-cost drugs and possibly set payment limits for those they Read more…
Analyst: Trang Giang, MBA, Data Quality Analyst, CIVHC Introduction: Why did you decide to go into health care analytics? I got into health care analytics entirely by accident, and now it is my career as well as my passion. I Read more…
The Community Dashboard, a tool designed to help communities, organizations, and individuals understand cost, quality and access to health care in Colorado, now includes additional years of data. Across all insurance payers in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO Read more…
By Kristin Paulson, JD, MPH, CEO and President As the summer winds down and the evenings have begun to cool off with the first hints of fall, I’m reminded of how change is constant all around us. Whether it’s the Read more…
Analyst: Valerie Garrison, MES, Evaluation Analyst, CIVHC Project Name: Telehealth vs. In-Person Services Payment Parity in Colorado, 2020-2021: Analysis of Telehealth Denied Claims Project Purpose (in one sentence, what high-level question was this analysis trying to answer?): Colorado’s Office of Read more…
Using Data to Understand Where Patients Go For Care Located in the frontier community of Gunnison, in the largest county per square mile in Colorado, is Gunnison Valley Health (GVH). Begun as a hospital in 1938, GVH has grown into Read more…
The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded the prestigious Innovation in Data Dissemination Award by the National Association for Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) for 2023. This remarkable recognition highlights Read more…
The latest version of the interactive CO APCD Insights Dashboard shows that the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD), one of the most robust APCDs in the nation, now contains over one billion claims. In addition to claims volume, Read more…
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