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To guide state health care delivery and payment reform policies, state governments require high quality health data sources. Data collected directly f... Learn More

This fact sheet will discuss two essential data sources, Hospital Discharge Databases (HDDs) and AllPayer Claims Databases (APCDs), which a growing nu... Learn More

The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) analyzed commercial insurance claims data from the New Hampshire Comprehensive Health Information System... Learn More

In the context of the current national dialog about health care and reform, states are trying to better understand and control healthcare costs and ut... Learn More

Based on ongoing work with states and reflects current knowledge about states’ APCD initiatives. Learn More

The purpose of this study by the NHID is to better understand how age impacts the commercially insured and self-insured medical care costs in NH. Learn More

The purpose of this study is to quantify the amount of care provided out of state, and make cost and volume comparisons among carriers regarding the c... Learn More

People covered by commercial insurance and self-insured plans administered by third party administrators (TPAs) were assigned to five year age groups ... Learn More

The report represents the first multiple-state evaluation of health services utilization and expenditures using state-mandated, all-payer commercial c... Learn More

Some states are using all-payer claims databases to identify potential areas for cost savings. It is still too early, however, to determine how effect... Learn More