There is a staggering array of information in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD). So much information that it can be difficult to keep track of the different types and their various combinations, much less their infinite applications. Read more…
How did you go about your selections? Were any analytics used? What basketball metrics do you think are most important? I make most of my picks based off of the prediction models from FiveThirtyEight.com (538), a blog featuring political and Read more…
A recent update to CIVHC’s Alternative Payment Models (APM) analysis shows that in 2021, across all health insurance payers in Colorado, 20% of all medical payments* were paid for outside of the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) model. Health insurer progress towards Read more…
Clarification: I might get fired for this blog if I don’t say up front that health care transparency is 100% necessary and I wholeheartedly believe in it. But not for patients alone. Now that I have that out of the Read more…
Project Name: ED Use for Mental Health and Self-Harm Project Purpose (in one sentence, what high level question was this analysis trying to answer?): Who is using the ED for mental health and self-harm related reasons and how often are these Read more…
In 2019, CIVHC partnered with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and AcademyHealth to support the Health Data for Action program, which provided data sets to researchers who needed access to data for their research projects. The program was similar to Read more…
In the fall of 2022, Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) implemented a new Submitter Quality Index (SQI), a benchmark step in CIVHC’s overall workplan to continually improve data completeness and accuracy. The SQI is a tool that Read more…
Social factors such as race, education, income, housing and transportation can have a major impact on a person’s ability to live a healthy life. These social determinants of health play a powerful, fundamental role in health outcomes and health equity Read more…
The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) recently released the Provider Payment Tool, the first health care transparency tool of its kind in Colorado. The tool, based on legislation passed in the 2022 session, shows how payments made to Read more…
The Association Between Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) and Health Outcomes Hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking”, is a technique for recovering gas and oil by drilling and releasing a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals to release the gas inside Read more…
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