Data to Drive Decisions Webinar Series: Investigating How Health Systems Survived COVID-19

Webinar

CIVHC is excited to announce a presentation update for this months webinar, "Investigating How Health Systems Survived COVID-19", which will feature David Cutler, Professor of Economics at Harvard and Kaushik Ghosh, Research Specialist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. The speakers will present research on changes in morbidity/mortality and Read more…

CO APCD Advisory Committee

Zoom/Telephone

The current duties of the Committee include making recommendations regarding: Procedures for the collection, retention, use, and disclosure of data, including procedures and safeguards to protect the privacy, integrity, confidentiality, and availability of any data Guidelines for charging for custom reports Procedures to ensure compliance with HIPAA and other state Read more…

Curbing Prescription Drug Costs in Colorado

Zoom/Telephone

Prescription drug costs continue to rise in Colorado, and represent one of the biggest health care cost drivers. To address rising costs, SB21-175 was passed establishing a Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board (PDAB). Join our February webinar to learn more about trends in prescription drug costs in Colorado, including drug Read more…

Data to Drive Decisions: Impact of Insurance Churn on Young Adults with Schizophrenia

Zoom/Telephone

Don't miss our next webinar to learn how data from the CO APCD was utilized to identify young adults with schizophrenia and their corresponding health care coverage post-diagnosis. Presenter: Jacqueline Pesa, MSEd, PhD, MPH Group Director, Population Health Research Real World Value & Evidence, Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC

Data to Drive Decisions: Protecting Patients from Surprise Bills: Colorado’s Out-of-Network Law

Zoom/Telephone

Join us April 21st from 12-1pm MT to learn more about how Colorado legislation is protecting patients from surprise out-of-network bills. In 2019, Colorado passed HB19-1174 establishing payment limits for out-of-network health care visits. Since then, CIVHC has worked closed with payers, providers, and the Division of Insurance (DOI) to Read more…

CO APCD Advisory Committee

Zoom/Telephone

The current duties of the Committee include making recommendations regarding: Procedures for the collection, retention, use, and disclosure of data, including procedures and safeguards to protect the privacy, integrity, confidentiality, and availability of any data Guidelines for charging for custom reports Procedures to ensure compliance with HIPAA and other state Read more…

CO APCD Advisory Committee

Zoom/Telephone

The current duties of the Committee include making recommendations regarding: Procedures for the collection, retention, use, and disclosure of data, including procedures and safeguards to protect the privacy, integrity, confidentiality, and availability of any data Guidelines for charging for custom reports Procedures to ensure compliance with HIPAA and other state Read more…

CIVHC’s Program Evaluation Webinar

Zoom/Telephone

Program evaluation is a powerful way to measure outcomes, make decisions, improve program effectiveness, demonstrate successes, and plan for the future. Evaluation services from CIVHC can help your organization improve your programs in many ways, including: full-scale program evaluation; data collection, monitoring, and analysis; evaluation support in grant writing and reporting; staff Read more…

CO APCD Advisory Commitee

Zoom/Telephone

The current duties of the Committee include making recommendations regarding: Procedures for the collection, retention, use, and disclosure of data, including procedures and safeguards to protect the privacy, integrity, confidentiality, and availability of any data Guidelines for charging for custom reports Procedures to ensure compliance with HIPAA and other state Read more…

Data to Drive Decisions: Provider Payment Tool

During the 2022 Colorado legislative session, Senate Bill 22-068 was passed to increase health care payment transparency. Join us February 23rd as we provide an overview of CIVHC's latest health care resource, the Provider Payment Tool. This public report displays payments made to Colorado health care providers for CPT codes Read more…

Data to Drive Decisions: Health Equity Analysis

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 and play a powerful, fundamental role in health outcomes and health equity for individuals and entire communities. In fact, studies have found that up to 80% Read more…

Data to Drive Decisions: The Community Dashboard

The Community Dashboard helps Change Agents across the state and nation understand how different aspects of health care – cost, utilization, access to care, and quality – vary across Colorado communities. The latest iteration of the Community Dashboard is now available and contains important trend information from 2013-2021. This data can be Read more…

Data to Drive Decisions: The CO APCD Scholarship Fund

The Colorado General Assembly provides $500,000 annually to help offset the cost of licensing non-public data from the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) for eligible organizations. The funding becomes available July 1st, 2023 and is available on a first come, first serve basis. Join us on Thursday, June Read more…

CO APCD Data User Group

November’s Data User Group meeting will feature speakers from the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE) and CIVHC analysts as they discuss how data from each organization can combine to tell the whole story of health care in Colorado. The Vital Statistics Program is the official record Read more…

January Data User Group Meeting

The January CO APCD Data User Group meeting will feature analysts from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) discussing how they use per-unit cost analysis in various reports. Skill: Analysis of per-unit costs Before performing any analysis including per-unit costs, analysts must determine how to approach the Read more…

Data to Drive Decisions: CO APCD Supporting Policy through Data

Join us on May 21st from 12-1pm MST to explore how Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) data is supporting health care policy across Colorado. Discover how various in-depth analyses including Firearm Injuries, ED for Mental Health Services, Surprise Billing and more help inform different stages of policy from Read more…