Diabetes Medication Adherence in Colorado Diabetes is a health condition affecting how your body turs food into energy, impacting 30+ million Americans and over 1 million more new cases every year. As the 7th leading cause of death in the US, diabetes can become costly, and life threatening, if not Read more
The Role of Health Insurance in Access to New Medical Technologies: A Case Study of BRCA Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Patients While working on her master’s thesis, Colorado student Emily Hammad, encountered a female patient recently diagnosed with breast cancer and struggling to plan for the future. The patient Read more
October 26, 2022 – The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) Board of Directors has selected Kristin Paulson, JD, MPH, to serve as the organization’s next President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) upon the retirement of long-time CEO, Ana English, MBA. As CIVHC’s present Chief Operating Officer and Read more
Recently, the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) released an updated Medicare Reference Based Pricing Analysis, the final analysis in the Affordability Dashboard. As with the other analyses on the dashboard, Medicare Referenced Based Pricing is another tool providing insight on ways to approach lowering health care costs Read more
CIVHC President and CEO Ana English is honored to accept the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) Elliot M. Stone Award of Excellence in Health Data Leadership during this year’s annual conference. The Elliot M. Stone Award recognizes an individual who “represents the highest ideals in data collection, analysis, Read more
Commercial Health Care Payments Compared to Medicare Remain Above the National Average A new interactive Tableau report and accompanying infographics are now available as part of the Center for Improving Value in Health Care’s (CIVHC) Affordability Dashboard. The data, based on analysis of Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) Read more
Health care costs are rising rapidly across the country, and Colorado is not exempt – a previous analysis using data from the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) found that cost of care in our state increased by 13% from 2013 to 2019. To address rising costs, there are Read more
Evaluating the Premium Sponsorship Program Colorado hit historic health insurance milestones in 2017, with over 5 million lives covered and a historically low uninsured rate of 6.5%. Meanwhile, high premiums continued to be a consistent barrier to coverage, with nearly 350,000 Coloradans remaining uninsured. Help was coming. That same year, Read more
A new report from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) finds the use of alternative payment models (APM) for primary care has increased in Colorado, while APM use for overall medical payments (not including pharmacy or dental) has declined across all payers. This is the first comprehensive Read more
The way people access and utilize health care varies across age, location, race, and gender. Recognizing the recent men’s health awareness month, we investigated Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) data to identify how men in Colorado access health care. In November 2021, CIVHC released an updated Community Dashboard Read more