RWJF Hospital Price Transparency Challenge Data Webinar Slides
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This webinar presentation summarized the RWJF Hospital Price Transparency Challenge. The challenge aims to increase understanding and use of recently released CMS hospital price data through visualizations (Category A) and apps/tools (Category B). It provided an overview of the challenge goals and categories, submission requirements, timelines, available data resources, and a CMS presentation on analyzing hospital charge data from Medicare claims. The webinar agenda covered background on RWJF challenges, an overview of the hospital price transparency challenge goals and categories, timeline details, and a CMS data presentation.
RWJF Hospital Price Transparency Challenge Data Webinar Slides
- 1. RWJF: Hospital Price Transparency Challenge Webinar Presentation Date: June 18th, 2013
- 2. On today’s call: Kathy Hempstead Senior Program Officer RWJF Jean-Luc Neptune Senior Vice President Health 2.0 Hemali Thakkar Challenge Manager Health 2.0 Chris Powers Director, Information Products Group CMS
- 3. Agenda for Today’s Webinar RWJF Challenge Background & Goals Challenge Categories & Phases Timeline Resources CMS Data Overview Q & A
- 4. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Mission: To improve the health and health care of all Americans
- 5. Background Robert Wood Johnson Foundation previous challenges: #1: RWJF Aligning Forces Challenge #2: RWJF Games to Generate Data Challenge Now #3: Hospital Price Transparency Challenge
- 6. Challenge Goals The RWJF Hospital Price Data Challenge is designed to increase understanding and use of recently released CMS hospital price data. Category A: Visualizations Category B: Apps & Tools Use of outside data is encouraged.
- 7. Challenge Categories Category A: Visualizations Static or Interactive Provide effective data visualizations that help the public understand, explore and interpret the price data Category B: Apps & Tools Provide an analytical capacity Improve health care decision-making
- 8. Category A: Visualization Only 1 Phase Submission requirements (submit via visualizing.org): visualization, video pitch (3 minutes), 250 word text description Deadline: August 25 Prizes: Interactive 1st Place - $9K | 2nd Place - $7K | 3rd Place - $3K Static 1st Place - $6K | 2nd Place - $3.5K | 3rd Place - 1.5K
- 9. Category B: Apps & Tools Phase I – Concept Submission requirements: text description of concept (250 words), wireframes, 10 slides Awards: 5 Finalists awarded $5,000 each and eligibility for Phase II Deadline: August 4 Phase II – Development Eligibility: Phase I Finalist Submission requirements: working application, slide deck (10 slides), and demo video (5 min), description Awards: First Place $50,000 and demo opportunity, Second Place $10,000, Third Place $5,000
- 10. Category A: Timeline Launch: June 3, 2013 Deadline: August 25, 2013 Winners notified: September 15, 2013 Winners announced: October 1, 2013 at Health 2.0 Fall Conference
- 11. Category B: Timeline Phase I launch: June 3, 2013 Phase I end: August 4, 2013 Finalists announced: September 16, 2013 Phase II end: November 3, 2013 Winners announced: December 9, 2013
- 12. Resources -- Data Sets CMS Pricing Data (Inpatient) CMS Pricing Data (Outpatient) Health Indicators Warehouse Healthdata.gov Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
- 13. Hospital Charge Analysis using Medicare Claims Data RWJF Hospital Price Transparency Challenge Data Webinar Office of Information Products and Data Analytics Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services June 18, 2013
- 17. Methods
- 18. Documentation
- 19. Data
- 20. Excel Filtering 2,750 hospitals that performed major joint replacement without complications or comorbidities are included in the file. Of these 2,750 hospitals, 60 were in the state of New Jersey. Of the 60 hospitals in New Jersey, 30 had at least 100 discharges in fiscal year 2011.
- 21. Average Covered Charges and Average Payments DRG 470 in NJ: Hospitals with 100 or more discharges Each pair of bars represents an individual hospital.
- 24. Data Usage Statistics: Downloads by State as of 5/13/2013, 4 PM Bubble Size represents the number of downloads. In the US, this figure ranged from 221 in Wyoming to 11,972 in California.
- 25. Data Usage Statistics: Sample of countries that have downloaded data as of 5/13/2013, 4 PM The charge data has been downloaded by individuals in over 50 countries.
- 26. Questions? Pre-Register! www.health2challenge.com Contact Hemali Thakkar at: hemali@health2con.com