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April 11, 2018
APCD Council Responds to Senate Health Care Price Transparency Initiative Request for Transparency Feedback
Read More February 5, 2018
Washington Health Alliance Releases New Study Which Found Hundreds of Thousands of Washington Patients Receive Unnecessary Treatments
Read More January 18, 2018
VT GMCB to Host Webinar to Provide Input on Development of Public Use Data Sets
The Vermont Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) will be hosting two (2) one hour webinars to solicit input on promoting data access and transparency with the Vermont All-Payer Claims Database – VHCURES. The purpose of these webinars will be to share plans for developing several public use data sets that would allow for analysis of broad health care utilization and spending trends among Vermont residents. These files have the possibility of allowing analysts to answer questions such as: Where do Vermonters receive their health insurance coverage? Read More November 21, 2017
American College of Physicians relases policy report supporting efforts to increase healthcare price transparency
Yesterday, the American College of Physicians (ACP) released a report highlighting that efforts to improve health care price transparency via increased access to meaningful information can help mend the fragmentation of healthcare in the United States. Related specifically to APCDs, the policy paper outlined a few specific roles APCDs could play in improving transparency, including: Read More November 21, 2017
NAHDO and the APCD Council Submit Comments to CMS Innovation Center RFI
Yesterday, the NAHDO and the APCD Council submitted recommendations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to a Read More November 14, 2017