Case Studies

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Health Plans Pay Twice As Much As Medicare A report and online dashboard for exploring prices and potential savings for specific inpatient and outpatient hospital procedures in Oregon. State: Oregon	Consumers, Employers, Insurance Department, Researchers	Commercial, Medicare	Cost
Healthcare Cost in Utah: Brief Summary of the 2014 Utah All Payer Claims Data The Utah Department of Health released this summary report on healthcare costs based on data from Utah's All Payer Claims Database (APCD). This… State: Utah	Consumers, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Cost, Utilization
Healthcare Payments Data (HPD) Snapshot The Healthcare Payments Data Snapshot is an overview of data currently available as submitted in the HPD System with visualizations that allow users…	Consumers, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
HealthFacts RI Interactive Reports Rhode Island has an interactive tool with Basic Population Statistics, and multiple Key Measures including: Breast Cancer Screening Rate, Cervical… State: Rhode Island	Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Quality, Utilization
Hospital Bundled Payment Opportunity Analysis This bundled payment analysis seeks to conduct bundled payment analysis to identify where Colorado hospitals may have opportunities to reduce… State: Colorado
Hospital Facility Prices Declined As A Result Of Oregon’s Hospital Payment Cap Hospital prices for commercially insured people are high and vary widely, prompting states to seek ways to control hospital price growth. In October… State: Oregon	Consumers, Employers, Health Reform, Insurance Department	Commercial, Medicare	Utilization
Hospital Facility Prices Declined As A Result Of Oregon’s Hospital Payment Cap Hospital prices for commercially insured people are high and vary widely, prompting states to seek ways to control hospital price growth. In October… State: Oregon	Consumers, Employers, Health Reform, Insurance Department	Commercial, Medicare	Cost
Hospital Variation in Health Care Utilization by Children with Medical Complexity The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice completed this follow-on study to its 2013 Dartmouth Atlas of Children’s Health… State: Vermont	Consumers, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Identifying Potential Overuse of Non-Evidence-Based Health Care in Utah: A Report for the Utah Health Data Committee In 2020, H.B. 195 - Identifying wasteful healthcare spending, which enacted UCA §26-33a-117-Identifying potential overuse of non-evidence-based… State: Utah	Consumers, Health Reform, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
Imaging Services Price Variation Data is based on 2017 claims submitted by commercial health insurance payers to the Colorado All Payer Claims Database. Dollar amounts reflect median… State: Colorado	Consumers	Commercial	Cost
Impact of Health Care Price Transparency on Price Variation: The New Hampshire Experience, November 2009 This analysis was jointly conducted by the New Hampshire Insurance Department and the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). The report… State: New Hampshire	Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Providers	Commercial	Cost, Utilization
Impact of the Assignment of Benefits Legislation The Maryland Health Care Commission's report assesses the impact of the Assignment of Benefits and Reimbursement of Nonpreferred Providers law… State: Maryland	Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Providers	Commercial	Cost
Impact of the Patient-Centered Medical Home on Consistently High-Cost Patients Patient-centered medical homes in Maryland’s multipayer demonstration disrupted the pattern of recurrently high expenditure among the costliest… State: Maryland	Consumers, Health Reform, Providers, Researchers	Commercial	Cost, Quality
Impact Study of Project Angel Heart’s Home-Delivered Meals Through this study, Project Angel Heart hopes to examine the cost patterns of clients prior to service, during service, and post- service, as well as… State: Colorado	Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Cost
In Three States, Growth In Prescription Drug Spending Is Unaffordable Even When Accounting For Rebates Over the past five years, several states have implemented statewide cost growth targets to increase transparency and accountability around the… State: Connecticut, Oregon, Rhode Island	Consumers, Insurance Department, Researchers	Commercial	Cost
Individual Purchasers in the Massachusetts Health Care System In the 2017 Annual Report on the Performance of the Massachusetts Health Care System, the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA)… State: Massachusetts	Consumers, Employers, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Cost, Utilization
Insurance Coverage Transitions After Disenrollment From Medicaid in Minnesota Little is known about where, or how quickly, people gain new health insurance after exiting Medicaid. Understanding these dynamics may be… State: Minnesota	Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Medicaid	Cost
Interactive Colorado Cost of Care Report Colorado's Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) analyzed cost of care for Coloradans across the state using data from 2012-2015.… State: Colorado	Consumers, Employers, Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost
Interactive Condition Prevalence Report Colorado's Center for Improving Value in Healthcare (CIVHC) created an interactive report profiling 11 chronic conditions common to Coloradans.… State: Colorado	Consumers, Employers, Insurance Department, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Quality, Utilization
Leading Indicators for Oregon's Health Care Transformation The Oregon Health Authority published this report on using data from their state All-Payer All-Claims Database. The report examines the outcomes of… State: Oregon	Consumers, Employers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Utilization

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