Commercial Data in the CO APCD

As of June 2023, the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) contained over 1 billion claims spanning 2013 through 2022. These claims were submitted by commercial health insurance plans, including Medicare Advantage, voluntarily submitted Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and mandated non-ERISA self-insured employer plans, Medicaid, and Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS). The CO Read more…

Ask the Analyst: Valerie Garrison on Analysis of Telehealth Denied Claims

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 eHealth Innovation (OeHI) wanted to know whether claims for telehealth Read more…

Medicare Data in the CO APCD

As of June 2022, the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) contained over 870 million claims spanning 2013 through 2021. These claims were submitted by commercial health insurance plans, including Medicare Advantage, voluntarily submitted Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and mandated non-ERISA self-insured employer plans, Medicaid, and Medicare Read more…