COVID-19
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Winners of COVID-19 Research Accelerator Grants Announced
Read more: Winners of COVID-19 Research Accelerator Grants AnnouncedSAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, June 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, the COVID-19 Research Consortium, the Health Care Cost Institute, and Datavant announced 15 winners of the first Research Accelerator grants, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant program’s mission is to ensure that researchers have the resources they need to leverage…
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COVID Research Accelerator Launched: 1M dollars for research teams leveraging the COVID-19 Research Database
Read more: COVID Research Accelerator Launched: 1M dollars for research teams leveraging the COVID-19 Research DatabaseThe COVID-19 Research Database Consortium announces new funding opportunity for research teams leveraging Real World Data available to inform medical interventions and targeted mitigation policies. [San Francisco, California] May 4, 2021 – Datavant, the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), and the COVID-19 Research Database Consortium announced the launch of a grant program today, in collaboration…
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Use of Preventive Health Care
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Read more: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Use of Preventive Health CareUpdated 4/16/2021 to include data through 12/30/2020. Since the original post on 9/9/2020, the data have been adjusted to account for claims submission lags. For more information, see Methods Note below. COVID-19 has had an extraordinary impact on the US health care system since its emergence in early 2020. One of the largest and most immediate impacts has…
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Daily Deaths During Coronavirus Pandemic by State
Read more: Daily Deaths During Coronavirus Pandemic by StateThe staggering death toll of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the United States has been widely reported, surpassing 523,000 as of March 8, 2021. Over the course of the current pandemic a common method for measuring the probable number of deaths caused by COVID-19 has been comparing actual deaths in 2020 to the expected number…
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USA Today: A National System to Prioritize COVID-19 Vaccines has Largely Failed as States Rely on Their Own Systems
Read more: USA Today: A National System to Prioritize COVID-19 Vaccines has Largely Failed as States Rely on Their Own SystemsHCCI’s President and CEO Niall Brennan was quoted in a USA Today article on failures of the federal COVID-19 vaccination system. From the article: “‘They literally thought their job stopped with vaccine development,’ said Niall Brennan, CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute and former chief data officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. ‘No, your…
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Using Medicare Data to Improve Vaccine Targeting: Providers Serving Highest Risk Patients
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Read more: Using Medicare Data to Improve Vaccine Targeting: Providers Serving Highest Risk PatientsAs the production and distribution of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines ramps up in the United States, there is a need to ensure that communities at highest risk for severe COVID-19 morbidity and mortality are targeted. As of February 2021, the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines, which were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under…
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COVID-19 Disparities Persist in Community Health Centers’ Vulnerable Populations
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Read more: COVID-19 Disparities Persist in Community Health Centers’ Vulnerable PopulationsCommunity Health Centers (CHCs) serve over 29 million vulnerable patients, making the lack of data on COVID-19-related racial disparities in patients served in CHCs a critical knowledge gap in assessments of the pandemic’s national impact. In rural and poor urban areas, CHCs may be the only accessible healthcare option. Even when other options exist, CHCs…
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Modern Healthcare: Targeting High-Risk Cancer Patients with Genetics
Read more: Modern Healthcare: Targeting High-Risk Cancer Patients with GeneticsHCCI’s research on utilization of preventive care services during the coronavirus pandemic was featured in Modern Healthcare. From the article: “A Health Care Cost Institute analysis of data from various payers found mammograms were down 24% and colonoscopies were down 33% as of August.” Targeting high-risk cancer patients with genetics As cancer screening rates have…
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The New York Times: These Towns Trusted a Doctor to Set Up Covid Testing. Sample Patient Fee: $1,944.
Read more: The New York Times: These Towns Trusted a Doctor to Set Up Covid Testing. Sample Patient Fee: $1,944.HCCI’s research on prices for COVID tests and other panel testing was featured in The New York Times. From the article: “Insurers typically reimburse the panel test at a higher rate, often paying six times what they would for a regular coronavirus test, according to data provided by the nonprofit Health Care Cost Institute.” These Towns Trusted a Doctor to…
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KFF: Trends in Overall and Non-COVID-19 Hospital Admissions
Tags: COVID-19Read more: KFF: Trends in Overall and Non-COVID-19 Hospital AdmissionsHCCI’s research on the utilization of preventive health care during the coronavirus pandemic was featured in an issue brief by KFF. From the article: “An analysis of data from 18 states that was published by the Health Care Cost Institute found similar patterns for childhood vaccinations and cancer screenings.” Trends in Overall and Non-COVID-19 Hospital…