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%.
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).
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.
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.
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.
