August 2020 – 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 polic...
August 2020 – 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...
August 2020 – 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 ...
May 2020 – 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 w...
May 2020 – 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. She has served previo...
May 2020 – 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 curre...
May 2020 – 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+) ...
February 2020 – 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. Q: What role does IHA play in helping dr...
February 2020 – 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 ...
February 2020 – 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 Duk...
February 2020 – 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 ana...
Presenter: Janice Bourgault, CPB, CPC, Senior Director of Process & Product DevelopmentIntended Audience: General While they may sound alike, Medicaid and Medicare are two very different programs, especially when compared to commercial payers. Understanding these differences is critical – n...
November 2019 - Onpoint’s APCD and reporting client, the state of Washington, recently enacted the Balance Billing Protection Act, which will become effective on January 1, 2020. The Act aims to protect consumers from balance (or “surprise”) bills – specifically for out-of-network facility or pro...
November 2019 - Onpoint is pleased to announce our continued partnership with Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) to support the state’s all-payer claims database, the Vermont Health Care Uniform Reporting and Evaluation System (VHCURES). Over the past 10 years, Onpoint has collaborated wi...
November 2019 – Onpoint is pleased to welcome Deborah Deatrick, MPH, to Onpoint’s Board of Directors. Deborah brings many years’ experience developing and leading successful health-focused organizations and initiatives within the delivery system, state government, and research sectors. Her intere...