Informed by experience, Freedman HealthCare offers the industry's best thinking on the development and operation of All Payer Claims Databases and other multi-payer data projects.
Actionable Data for States and Communities
FHC consultants give state agencies, non-profit organizations
and others the tools and guidance to develop powerful
databases that drive change.
Freedman HealthCare supports clients on the following tasks:
Building and Sustaining a Database
Strategic Planning from Visioning to Sustainability
Project Management
Vendor Procurement, Selection and Management
Submission Guide Development and Data Collection Support
Overcoming Legal, Regulatory and Legislative Issues
Privacy and Security Planning
Process and Policy Development
Creating and Sharing Information
Choosing Analytic Solutions
Improving Data Quality and Timeliness
Integration of Claims Data with Clinical and other Data Sets
Data Reporting and Analysis
Marketing and Communications
Stakeholder Engagement
Freedman HealthCare APCD Clients
Massachusetts
FHC oversaw the system implementation and project management for the MA APCD, including building the MA Healthcare Quality and Cost Council’s private insurance claims dataset.
The firm helped design and launch the Council’s website, the first in the nation to display provider-specific quality and cost information simultaneously.
FHC continues to provide ongoing advisory input on the selection of quality and cost measures for the MA website.
FHC also supported the Massachusetts Connector, the state’s health insurance exchange, in its first-in-the nation use of the APCD to meet data collection requirements for an alternative risk adjustment methodology.
Colorado
The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) selected FHC to provide strategic planning, project oversight, and subject matter expertise to launch its APCD.
FHC led CIVHC’s Advisory Committee which defined its structure and operations including the creation of data specifications that support CIVHC’s strategic goals.
In addition, FHC drafted the regulations for data submission by carriers, guided the vendor procurement and selection process, and advised on elements of a consumer- and provider-friendly reporting and website portal.
FHC also served as the interim project coordinator when the Colorado APCD:
Completed its initial data submission phase, collecting historical data for 2.4M Coloradans, and did so only 22 months after statutory authorization;
Launched the COhealthdata.org website;
Implemented a data release process; and
Developed a data compliance strategy.
Rhode Island
In 2010, the RI Quality Institute and the RI Department of Health selected FHC to provide strategic planning and subject matter expertise for the development of the RI-APCD.
In 2012, FHC assumed a project manager role, working closely with the State and its stakeholders to ensure that all APCD milestones and deliverables complete on time, on budget, and with an eye towards sustainability.
Since then, FHC has provided exploratory analyses, technical and subject matter expertise, and customized project management support.
Tennessee
FHC advised the Tennessee Office of Health Planning (OHP) through its critical exploratory process as it determined the extent to which its APCD data could meet its health insurance exchange requirements related to risk adjustment.
Through a focused strategy engagement, the FHC team examined the design of the data elements in the context of developing an alternative risk adjustment methodology under the Affordable Care Act.
FHC then developed a list of recommendations showing how Tennessee could transform its APCD to support risk adjustment, documenting its findings and recommendations in a written report to OHP.
Connecticut
FHC assisted Access Health CT, the Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange, with APCD design and implementation.
FHC staff provided technical assistance during legislative deliberations in the spring of 2012. With passage of the law in May 2012, FHC assisted with drafting regulations and advising the state during public comment periods; project plan development; developing a successful budget proposal for federal consideration; and designing an approach to reporting that is consistent with stakeholders’ needs.
FHC then assisted the state with designing a data submission guide, preparing a scope of work for a data management vendor, and developing a sustainability plan.
Alaska
APCD to support a range of analytic, management and reporting goals.
A key component of this engagement was a comprehensive stakeholder process in which FHC conducted interviews and focus groups to understand the AK healthcare landscape. FHC met with AK providers, payers and consumers of care; state employees in the areas of administration, insurance and health; representatives from the Alaska eHealth Network, Alaska State Hospital & Nursing Home Association, and Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium; and researchers.
