Suzanne and Jo discuss the recent growth in APCDs across the country, renewed federal interest in APCDs, how states are collecting and sharing the information in their APCDs, and data barriers. Suzanne and Jo also discuss the benefits of APCD data for employers and other health care purchasers looking to create high-value benefits and health care programs for members.
Purchasers: how many times have you attended a meeting with your health plan that focused solely on high-level concepts and success stories, but not a meaningful, tactical conversation about the issues of greatest concern to you? CPR’s Health Plan User Groups (HPUGs) are like a client advisory group meeting, but turned upside down: the clients, not the health plans, set the agenda, offering a forum for a substantive and rich two-way dialogue.
Colorado passed legislation authorizing the creation of its APCD in 2010. Today, the database houses over 718 million medical, dental and pharmacy claims from 44 payers (including 35 commercial plans). What makes Colorado’s APCD so powerful, however, is its pairing with the publicly-facing reporting and analysis that CIVHC provides.
Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Katy Spangler, Principal at Spangler Strategies, about recent federal activity on health care price transparency and what employers need to know moving forward.
