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Issue Brief: All Payer Claims Databases
Source Fellow June 19, 2015
By: Evan Sznol, Source Fellow Introduction: What is an All-Payer Claims Database? An All-Payer Claims Database (“APCD”) is an electronic system that aggregates claims and administrative data from public and private payers. APCDs allow states to monitor utilization and healthcare charges across all payers, and, as such, are key tools for policymakers to identify and respond to systematic trends among (nearly) all delivery settings. According to the APCD Council (a collaboration between the University of New Hampshire and the National Association of Health Data Organizations), there are 12 operational state …
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Featured Paper Review– Certificates of Public Advantage: Can They Address Provider Market Power?
Source Fellow February 19, 2015
By: Evan Sznol, Source Fellow The Source would like to highlight a newly published paper by Urban Institute researchers Randall R. Bovbjerg & Source Advisory Board member Robert A. Berenson with a summary of this important work. In “Certificates of Public Advantage: Can They Address Provider Market Power? (Feb. 2015),” published by the Urban Institute, the authors conducted a case study through interviews with relevant stakeholders to determine the impact of a Certificate of Public Advantage (“COPA”) on healthcare delivery and prices and its utility as a policy tool. …
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In re Evanston Northwestern: Plaintiff Class Certified Following the FTC’s Succesful Challenge to a Consumated Hospital Merger
Source Fellow March 8, 2014
By: Cameron Halling In re Evanston Northwestern, currently pending in federal district court in the Northern District of Illinois, represents the first private class action antitrust lawsuit brought as a result of a hospital merger. At issue in Evanston is the 2000 acquisition of Highland Park Hospital by rival Evanston Northwestern HealthCare Corp. Four years after the completion of the merger, the FTC filed a retroactive administrative complaint, alleging that the merger had significantly lessened competition for general acute care hospital services in Chicago’s north shore area. See FTC Press …
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