Prices continue to go up on the high end for most services making shopping for care imperative The online Shop for Care Tool, based on information in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD), now offers prices for more health care services than ever before. As health care costs Read more…
As the CO APCD nears almost one billion total claims, the latest version of the interactive Insights Dashboard shows a steady rise in behavioral health services since 2013. The Insights Dashboard helps users understand the contents of the CO APCD and how it has changed over time by population, payer, Read more…
CIVHC’s Community Dashboard is a powerful tool that provides Colorado communities with information to understand how various aspects of health care in their region — including costs, utilization, and access — compare to state and other county results. Including claims from a majority of the insured lives represented in the Read more…
Lung Cancer Screening Environmental Scan For over 20 years the Colorado Cancer Coalition has guided the prevention, treatment and control of cancer statewide with the mission of eliminating the cancer burden in Colorado. One area of focus for the coalition is lung cancer, the third most common cancer in the Read more…
A new and enhanced Community Dashboard from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) provides county and regional information to help communities identify opportunities to improve cost of care, quality, and access and utilization of services. Statewide, results show that in spite of positive decreases in utilization of Read more…
The Ask the Analyst series is a deep dive into the data by those most familiar with the CO APCD – the analysts themselves. We’ll hear about their experiences with recent analyses and answer any pressing questions that come up. Have a question for the CIVHC Analyst Team? Email it Read more…
Population Surveillance of Adolescents and Adults with Congenital Heart Disease In 2015, the Colorado School of Public Health and University of Colorado Department of Cardiology assembled a team of epidemiologists, cardiologists, health informaticians and patient advocates to develop a state-wide surveillance system of adolescents and adults with congenital heart defects (CHD) in Colorado. The Read more…
Written by Douglas McCarthy, President, Issues Research, Inc., and CIVHC Board President In my role as a health policy researcher, I’ve worked with many national health care data sources throughout the years. My service on the boards of the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) and the Peak Health Read more…
The Ask the Analyst series is a deep dive into the data by those most familiar with the CO APCD – the analysts themselves. We’ll hear about their experiences with recent analyses and answer any pressing questions that come up. Have a question for the CIVHC Analyst Team? Email it Read more…
This is the fourth in a series of blogs about what exactly is in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD). Today we’re looking at one of the most fundamental claims we receive – the pharmacy claim. Pharmacy claims include basic information about what drug(s) you received, the type Read more…