January 20, 2026 – A newly released analysis from Onpoint Health Data – “Tracking Virginia’s 2024 Health Care Spending & Employment Trends” – finds that while Virginia’s personal health care (PHC) spending per capita continued to be lower than the national average, the change in its total PHC spending from 2023 to 2024 (9.9%) was higher than the national average of 7.2%.
November 2025 – At the Annual Conference of the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) in November, Onpoint Health Data’s Chief Technology Officer, Devon Holgate, and Data Analytics Manager, Dominic Gayton, explored one of the most recent and promising intersections of technology and health data: Using artificial intelligence (AI) assistants to enhance public access to the valuable information available from an all-payer claims database (APCD).
November 2025 – Today, we’re delighted to spotlight Monique Yanni (Cote), PMP®, Senior Client Services Manager, who brings more than a decade of healthcare and health policy experience to Onpoint. Monique plays a key role in guiding our client services team, fostering collaboration and engagement and ensuring that team members have the resources they need to successfully support our clients . Since joining Onpoint in 2017, Monique has led complex, multi-stakeholder projects for state all-payer claims database (APCD) and other clients, streamlined processes to increase efficiency, and cultivated strong, lasting partnerships with our clients. We’re proud to highlight Monique’s leadership and the positive energy that she brings to every engagement.
October 2025 – Onpoint’s latest staff profile shines a spotlight on Corey Ramsey, CISSP®, Onpoint’s Director of Information Technology! With more than two decades of IT engineering experience, Corey brings a blend of technical expertise, strategic vision, and dedication to exceptional service. In his role as Information Security Officer and IT leader, he guides the evolution of Onpoint’s infrastructure, oversees technology operations, and ensures that our systems remain secure, efficient, and compliant with the highest data protection standards. Whether he’s strengthening Onpoint’s security or working with his team to develop new and innovative technical solutions, Corey brings the same commitment to quality and problem-solving. We’re excited to highlight his leadership, technical skill set, and the personal passions that keep him (and us) inspired.
October 2025 – This post provides a brief overview of the application process for the new federal Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program and how all-payer claims databases (APCDs) can serve as valuable resources when applying for funding under this new opportunity’s rapidly approaching application deadline of November 5, 2025.
August 2025 – This month, we’re excited to feature Katherine (Kate) Ahrens, PhD, MPH, a principal health data analyst at Onpoint. Kate has more than 20 years of experience in public health research and epidemiology and a deep understanding of how clinical and claims data can be leveraged to support complex analyses. With a background that spans academia, large health systems, and the federal government, Kate brings unmatched expertise to our analytic work. In her previous role as an associate research professor at the University of Southern Maine’s Muskie School of Public Service, her research focused on maternal and child health, rural disparities, and opioid use disorder, topics she has explored in more than 150 papers published over the course of her career. At Onpoint, she helps design complex analytic projects and translates data into meaningful insights to support value-based care and program evaluation. We’re proud to have Kate on our team and look forward to highlighting the impact of her contributions and her extensive research background.
July 2025 – Onpoint Health Data recently hosted a user group session focused on helping our clients deepen their understanding of Medicare reference pricing — a methodology and tool used to analyze healthcare spending and benchmark total cost of care against a standard rate. As an increasing number of organizations seek to assess the relative cost of care across comparable services and providers, leveraging Medicare rates as a standardized reference point is useful in informing policy decisions.
April 2025 – Onpoint Health Data is excited to announce the launch of the first phase of the Multi-State Behavioral Health Initiative: a series of interactive dashboards now available on Onpoint’s website. Part of our Collective Impact initiative, the dashboards are the culmination of an innovative collaboration between Onpoint and five of our state all-payer claims database (APCD) clients – Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota, Vermont, and Washington – and provide a new resource for exploring the relationships between behavioral health, other medical conditions, and social drivers of health.
March 2025 – Onpoint Health Data is excited to welcome Dr. David Wennberg to our Board of Directors. With his expertise in health analytics, technology, and value-based care, Dr. Wennberg will bring valuable insights to continue advancing Onpoint’s growth and innovation strategies.
January 27, 2025 – A new report from Onpoint Health Data – “Tracking Virginia’s 2023 Health Care Spending & Employment Trends” – evaluates critical aspects of Virginia’s health economy and provides actionable insights for policymakers, businesses, and health care stakeholders. The new report examines a series of key metrics, including spending growth, insurance premium, and out-of-pocket spending trends; enrollment patterns; and employment data to offer a comprehensive view of trends through 2023. Onpoint’s report builds upon previous reporting by Altarum while leveraging updated methodologies and an additional year of data to provide the latest insights and perspective.
January 2025 – Addressing the escalating costs of prescription drugs is a key focus of many states as they work to increase access to care while reducing its financial burden. On January 15, Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) continued the state’s work in this area, releasing a preliminary report to the state legislature on implementing a new program to regulate the cost of prescription drugs. Vermont joins several other states – including Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, and Washington – that have taken similar steps to curb the growing cost of pharmaceuticals.
This March 2022 user group session provides an overview of the changing codes, billing rules, and data enhancements for both COVID-19 and telehealth services. It will discuss telehealth services, how they are coded, and which codes and billing rules are permanent and which instead are related to the pandemic.
We’ll also offer an update on the coding and billing guidelines related to COVID-19, including a review of the various COVID-19 diagnosis and procedure codes (e.g., COVID infection, long COVID, personal history of COVID, vaccination, testing, treatment), how they are reported on claims, and what to look for when working with APCD data. It will also review how to efficiently use Onpoint’s telehealth and COVID-19 value-add flags to support analyses.
In collaboration with clients in multiple states, Onpoint has developed and released a new APCD Snapshot reporting tool that provides the public with accessible and intuitive insights into the data collected and available within a state’s all-payer claims database (APCD).
Healthcare data, with its great potential for informing policy and providing guidance to decision-makers, has never been more important. As it plays an increasingly prominent role in how healthcare is delivered, its reliability and accuracy have never been more important. At Onpoint, we pride ourselves on the reliability of our data products. Before we release an extract for analytic use, we perform a rigorous set of quality assurance checks that examine data integrity within and across all delivered tables. In this upcoming webinar, we will provide a brief demonstration of our quality assurance process and walk through some of the key steps that we take to make sure that your data sets are as complete and accurate as they should be.
While they may sound alike, Medicaid and Medicare are two very different programs, especially when compared to commercial payers. Understanding these differences is critical – not only when collecting and processing their claims – but also when analyzing their data. This webinar will offer an overview of these differences, providing insights into how best to interpret and make use of the claims data across payer types, including an exploration of Medicaid- and Medicare-specific data elements, billing rules for hospital-owned practices and FQHCs, CPT and HCPCS codes specific to Medicaid and Medicare, how these government payers work with commercial payers and with each other, dual-eligible members, Medicare as a secondary payer (MSP), and more.
