5 Things Washington: Health in the budget, Health policy recap, Cost of care
Emily Boerger | Mar 10, 2022 | Washington
5 Things Alaska: ARPA funding proposal, Q&A w/Verné Boerner, Budget conversations
DJ Wilson | Apr 21, 2021 | Alaska
5 Things Alaska: Budget proposal, Health policy in the Biden era, APCD
DJ Wilson | Dec 16, 2020 | Alaska
Update on the Alaska Healthcare Transformation Project
Sandra Heffern | Jun 29, 2020 | Alaska
Washington Health Alliance report finds downward trend in health care spending waste
Emily Boerger | Nov 6, 2019 | Washington
In the latest edition of its First, Do No Harm series, the Washington Health Alliance details the results of an analysis on wasteful spending for the commercially-insured and Medicaid-insured populations in the state. Utilizing the Alliance’s All Payer Claims Database, the new report includes data from 2014-2017, and evaluates wasteful
HCA selects Washington Health Alliance as lead organization for all-payer claims database
Amy Blondin | Oct 4, 2019 | Washington
The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) has announced the Washington Health Alliance as the apparently successful bidder to serve as lead organization of the Washington State All-Payer Claims Database (WA-APCD). The WA-APCD is a tool used to collect health care claims data for reporting and analytics, and to help
Washington launches all-payer claims database, Washington HealthCareCompare
Marjie High | Jul 2, 2018 | Washington
On Friday, Washington launched its new all-payer claims database, Washington HealthCareCompare (WAHCC). It is a rocky roll out for the website that aims at making health care decisions more transparent for Washingtonians, which is today down for maintenance. When up and running, the site will aggregate health care claims information
Premera On "Transparency" And APCD
DJ Wilson | Jul 21, 2014 | Washington
This statement from Premera was released on March 10th in a producer email. We missed in then, but are posting the statement now. --------------------------------------- Jeff Roe President Premera Blue Cross You may have seen one or more of a number of media articles in the recent days on the legislative
Backlash against Premera on lobbying | Health care leaders get new positions | Obama delays again
DJ Wilson | Mar 11, 2014
The legislative session is set to conclude this Thursday, though today is the day the budget compromise should be agreed to in order to conclude on time. But, on health care, it's been a relatively tame session. That's given us time to keep an eye on the media, on the
How The Premera Media Firestorm Took Shape
DJ Wilson | Mar 11, 2014 | Washington
Something pretty amazing just happened in our local media coverage of health care in Washington State: Premera got hit this week with 8 days of pretty blistering media coverage in multiple outlets across the state for its lobbying in Olympia. To preface, this comment isn't on the merits of the