New Hampshire
Category
Title or Name of APCD System
  • New Hampshire Comprehensive Health Care Information System
Who Maintains the System
  • The NH Insurance Department and NH Department of Health and Human Services partner to maintain NHCHIS
Website
Legal Authority
Investment
  • Approximately $3M since 2005
Statute
Submission Rules
Release Policy
First Year APCD Collected Data
  • 2005
APCD Snapshot
  • The New Hampshire Comprehensive Healthcare Information System began accepting claims submissions in 2005 in response to a need for more transparency in the commercial insurance system. The drivers listed in their statute include the provision of a resource for continuous review of health care utilization, expenditures, and performance data by insurers, purchasers, employers, providers and state agencies. Also expressed was the goal to help consumers and employers make informed and cost effective health care choices. In addition, data were desired for comparison to Medicaid quality, cost, utilization, and price.
Number of Commercial Sources of Claims Data
  • 26
Sources and Status of APCD Data Collection
Payers
Commercial Payers
  • Currently Collected
Third Party Administrators/Self-Funded
  • Currently Collected
Medicaid
  • Currently Collected
Medicare
  • Currently Collected
Other
  • Also planned is the collection of some form of uninsured claim information.
Types of Data Collected 
Medical Claims
  • Currently Collected
Eligibility
  • Currently Collected
Dental
  • Currently Collected
Pharmacy
  • Currently Collected
Consumer Website
Contact Information

Use Cases from the APCD Showcase

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Use Cases Category Carriers
Exploring Shifts in Insurance Products after ACA
This study explores the shift in popularity of different commercial insurance products following the adoption of the ACA. Significant focus is given to Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO's), and Point-of-Serivice (POS) plans. The study examines how this trend affects costs to consumers. It relies on data from the All Payer Claims Database (APCD) for the state of New Hampshire for the years 2009-2013.
 Consumers, Employers, Insurance Department Commercial
Association Between Utilization of Chiropractic Services for Treatment of Low-Back Pain and Use of Prescription Opioids.
In 2015 data was pull from NH Department of Health and Human service and NH Insurance Department to determine the association of chiropractic services for lower chronic back pain and the use of prescription opioids. They found that patients who utilize chiropractic services had a reduce use of opioid prescriptions. Which decreases costs and reduces the risk of opioid misuse and addiction.
Consumers, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare
Cost and Utilization of Treatment for Diabetes in New Hampshire: Analysis of Medical and Pharmacy All-Payer Claims Data
This report analyzes the medical and pharmaceutical costs for diabetes in New Hampshire’s commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare populations.
Consumers, Employers, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare
The New England States’ All-Payer Report on Primary Care Payments
The purpose of this report is to use standardized data to identify the percentage of all-payer primary care spending relative to overall healthcare spending in each state and to provide a framework to evaluate whether the states’ investments in primary care reflect the importance and value of primary care in each state.
 Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare