May 2024 - As the healthcare system continues to shift towards rewarding value-based care instead of volume-based care, reporting on cost and quality is increasingly important for measuring progress. This reporting may include measuring the quality of care offered by specific providers or by a gr...
April 2024 – For many years, statewide all-payer claims databases (APCDs) have collected a full array of healthcare claims from insurance providers – including commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare – offering health coverage to a state’s residents. The claims reported to an APCD typically detail the...
February 14, 2024 -- 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 dashboa...
March 2022 – 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 coll...
January 2022 – 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). The APCD...
December 2021 – 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, Califor...
April 2021 – 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 Payme...
April 2021 – 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,...
April 2021 – 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...
April 2021 – 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. The report finds that Rhode Island’s increased use of MAT t...
April 2021 – 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 ...
December 2020 – 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 mod...
December 2020 – 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 fe...
December 2020 – 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 rall...
Presenter: Jesse Drummond, PhD, Senior Health Data Analyst 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 accur...