Costs Go Up, Costs Go Down. What Does it all Mean?
By Edie Sonn, CIVHC Interim CEO and VP of Strategic Initiatives |
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Two interesting data points about health care spending have emerged in the last week that, at first, may seem contradictory. Actually, though, they are entirely complementary, and both illustrate the need to continue efforts to control costs and improve quality in the health care system.
First was the publication of the latest findings from Oregon's 2008 Medicaid expansion, showing that newly-covered Medicaid enrollees in that state used the emergency room even more often than they did before they got Medicaid.
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CO APCD Top Ten List 2013
By Tracey Campbell, Director of All Payer Claims Database |
As I look back on my first year with CIVHC as the Director of the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (APCD), and the first full year with an operational APCD, I think it is important to reflect on how this state resource has grown and how it's being used across Colorado. I'm going to borrow from David Letterman's "Top Ten List" approach to benchmark the progress of Colorado's APCD and leave you with the APCD goals for 2014.
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