Onpoint Health Data today announced the launch of our newly refreshed branding and fully redesigned website, marking an exciting new chapter as the organization celebrates 50 years of advancing healthcare through trusted data, innovative analytics, and collaborative partnerships with clients nationwide.
Onpoint Health Data and the Indiana Department of Insurance (IDOI) are proud to announce that the Indiana Health Prices Chatbot has received the 2026 Innovation in Data Dissemination Award from the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO). Presented annually since 2009, the award recognizes an organization’s dedication to effectively communicating health data to the public.
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%.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Onpoint Health Data is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Board members, Jeff Yuan and Tracy Johnson, PhD. Together, their collective expertise in healthcare operations, policy, and technology innovation will help support Onpoint’s continued drive to support improvement in health outcomes through timely, actionable data and analytics.
This week, Onpoint Health Data is launching exciting new enhancements to our Onpoint CDM portal. As of today, client users will have access to self-service reporting that will give them immediate, on-demand access to valuable data insights, empowering them to answer key questions about data submissions to their data collection initiative.
As part of the comprehensive support that we provide to our clients and data users, Onpoint hosts a quarterly webinar, “Onpointers – Data Insights,” that gives attendees an in-depth look at a relevant topic within the world of healthcare claims data. In response to client interest, this month’s installment focused on how Onpoint is addressing the complex challenge of parsing provider data from healthcare claims, enabling agencies and researchers to more confidently track cost, quality, and utilization at the provider level.
As concern about the growing incidence and impacts of substance use disorder (SUD) continue to increase, so has the demand for reliable and comprehensive data to guide policy and inform treatment strategies. To support this work, many researchers are looking to statewide all-payer claims databases (APCDs) – critical data resources that collect detailed information from health plans based on claims paid to healthcare providers and hospitals for services rendered.
All-payer claims databases (APCDs) are a rich source of healthcare data that can help unlock key insights into health policy and public health challenges. However, analyzing this vast amount of data with precision — especially across different geographies and populations — can be a complex task. Onpoint’s new Provider Address and Member Address tables help simplify this process by geocoding provider and member locations, giving analysts the power to drill into geographical details more effectively.
Onpoint Health Data, in partnership with the Indiana Department of Insurance (IDOI), Indiana-based web design firm Haystack and project management firm Briljent, is pleased to announce the launch of the Indiana APCD Website – a consumer-focused website that allows Hoosiers to compare average prices for common medical services across health plans and providers throughout the state and explore quality ratings for many of Indiana’s largest health systems.
Last week, the Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) in Washington State released a series of mental health dashboards that highlight trends in cost, utilization, and access for members of the commercial population with and without mental health diagnoses. These dashboards help users explore how costs and utilization varied across a wide range of factors.
Following a competitive procurement in late 2021, the state of Maryland selected Onpoint Health Data to take over data management and analytic services for the state’s all-payer claims database (APCD), the Maryland Medical Care Data Base (MCDB). Onpoint’s services encompass data collection, validation, and enhancement of enrollment and insurance claims file submissions for 5.5 million insured Marylanders and supporting an array of analytic deliverables, including the launch of a new business intelligence reporting solution and transition of the state’s “Wear the Cost“ public-facing website.
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).
This fall, California’s Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) (formerly the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development) announced the selection of Onpoint Health Data as the platform vendor for the state’s Health Care Payments Data (HPD) Program, California’s all-payer claims database (APCD).
As COVID vaccines continue to roll out across the country, their related claims have begun rolling in for our clients’ APCDs. Data sets being delivered by Onpoint now provide our clients and their data users with the opportunity to study the administration of vaccines by age, gender, geography, and other factors to better understand this phase of the pandemic.
Onpoint recently completed a first-of-its-kind analysis of statewide investments in primary care across all six New England states – Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The study, “The New England States’ All-Payer Report on Primary Care Payments,” was sponsored by the New England States Consortium Systems Organization (NESCSO), a coalition governed by the New England states’ Health and Human Services agencies and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, with supplemental funding provided by the Milbank Memorial Fund. The study was made possible through close collaboration across multiple organizations and state teams.
For more than 30 years, Onpoint’s employees have chosen to contribute a portion of their pay to a fund that we use to support local charitable organizations. This year, we pooled our 2020 funds to support My Place Teen Center, a free, year-round after-school resource that provides a safe haven for kids in Portland, Maine, where Onpoint is headquartered.
A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston examines Rhode Island’s efforts to combat the opioid crisis, using data from the state’s APCD to study the roll-out of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in recent years.
In December 2020, Congress approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which includes a series of provisions that aim to increase transparency in several key areas of healthcare service delivery. The legislation’s “No Surprises Act” section specifically provides as much as $2.5 million to each state that successfully applies for funding to start or enhance their APCD.
This fall, Onpoint kicked off our annual campaign to support the United Way of Greater Portland, Maine, and the organization’s work helping those in need across our community. Representatives from the United Way and Portland’s Preble Street Resource Center joined our kick-off rally to review the important work being done by both organizations to provide housing, meals, career counseling, and other social supports for people in need.
Over the past weeks, the number of new COVID-19 infections and deaths has risen to record highs in the United States. Information about the development and spread of the coronavirus continues to be critical for planning efforts at every level of healthcare administration – from federal strategies about upcoming vaccine distributions to provider-level decisions about how best to use telehealth to manage care for high-risk patients. Additionally, data that describe the impact of the virus on healthcare service delivery since last March, when most statewide lockdowns began, reveal changes to the healthcare landscape that may be here to stay. To help our clients understand how their state or region is being impacted, Onpoint has developed a series of reports that illustrate recent trends in insurance claims data as they navigate an uncertain future.
Onpoint was recently selected by Embedded Healthcare, a fast-growing health IT start-up based in Washington, DC, to support its back-end data integration and analytic-services needs. Embedded Healthcare is focused on lowering the cost of care by leveraging behavioral economics models to change the ways that providers make decisions. We sat down with Keith Florance, Embedded Healthcare’s President, to learn more about the solutions that they have developed, their progress to date, and the role that Onpoint is playing in their go-to-market strategy.
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.
For the past 30 years, the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) has presented its Elliot M. Stone “Award of Excellence in Health Leadership” to “individuals who represent the highest ideals in data collection, analysis, or outcomes measurement and whose creative efforts have made outstanding contributions to improvements in the collection, application, and/or dissemination of health data.”
Together with our partners at the Vermont Blueprint for Health, Onpoint has leveraged data from Vermont’s APCD to identify the population of pediatric patients with mental-health diagnoses and explore patterns in patients’ healthcare utilization and cost. Specifically, the State of Vermont was interested in identifying a high-utilizer subgroup of young people (ages 1-21 years) with mental-health diagnoses that might benefit from a mobile response unit initiative designed to improve access to mental-health services and reduce the need for emergency department visits and inpatient admissions for mental-health purposes.
With the need for accessible and actionable data becoming more important than ever, Onpoint recently released an update to our Business Intelligence (BI) reporting solution, which leverages the latest technologies and remains focused on our clients’ priorities, including ease of use, rich content, and reliable performance to support meaningful data analysis.
Onpoint is pleased to welcome Nathan Tefft, PhD, Associate Professor of Economics at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, to our Board of Directors. Dr. Tefft teaches courses in health economics, microeconomics, econometrics, and statistics at Bates, and his research reflects his policy interests in risky health behaviors and health policy.
Onpoint provided lead analytic support in a recent study of informal provider networks operating in the California healthcare market for a report commissioned by the state’s health benefits exchange, Covered California. Onpoint’s analytics team worked with California’s Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) to design and execute the study, seeking insight into the associations that exist among California’s fee-for-service (FFS) healthcare providers.
As both the healthcare delivery system and governmental agencies are formulating response and mitigation plans for the coronavirus pandemic, the importance of timely and reliable health data has never been more urgent. As a national leader in APCD management and analytics, Onpoint is positioned to provide clients and their stakeholders with insights regarding how COVID-19 has impacted healthcare cost, utilization, and quality.
Onpoint is partnering with NewWave Telecom and Technologies (NewWave), a Maryland-based digital services provider with a focus on healthcare, to support the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s provider-reporting solution for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program.
Transforming how primary care is delivered and paid for is widely viewed as foundational to achieving the cost-reduction and quality-improvement objectives that are essential to a sustainable healthcare system. States and regions across the country are working to understand their current investment in primary care and to standardize the measurement of spending in order to assess trends over time and the impact of policy initiatives that seek to increase investment in primary care.
Onpoint is pleased to welcome Rachel Block to our Board of Directors. She brings a long career in health policy and program leadership, most recently as a program officer with the Milbank Memorial Fund where she focuses on a variety of state health policy issues.
Onpoint’s analysts have been working with state governments and other clients to generate baseline data to support state and regional resource planning and modeling efforts in response to COVID-19. Our initial analyses have focused on determining the number and prevalence of patients who have respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, cancers, and other health conditions that may make these patients more susceptible to hospitalization from COVID-19.
Onpoint’s Board of Directors plays an integral role in establishing and maintaining our mission and vision and in guiding our strategic direction. Anneliese Gerland, MBA, Vice President of Practice and Segment Operations at the Chartis Group, a national healthcare advisory and analytics firm, and an Onpoint board member, has provided valuable leadership in Onpoint’s strategic planning efforts. She brings many years’ experience in health services research and analytics and a data-driven perspective to business issues, which makes her a natural fit on the board of a data and analytics organization.
Onpoint’s analytics team, on behalf of California’s Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), recently concluded an in-depth evaluation of healthcare trends in California’s seriously ill population. The investigation was a collaboration between Onpoint Health Data, IHA, and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy (Duke-Margolis) at Duke University, with funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Onpoint is excited to have collaborated with Washington State’s Office of Financial Management (OFM) on the state’s first comprehensive analysis of annual primary care medical expenditures. The data source for this report, “Primary Care Expenditures,” was the Washington All-Payer Health Care Claims Database (WA-APCD), which is maintained by Onpoint and recently transitioned from OFM oversight to the Washington State Health Care Authority.
Onpoint sat down with Jeffrey Rideout, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), based in Oakland, California, to discuss the organization’s work helping transform California’s healthcare market.