Next Back to Top of Page The Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy is pleased to announce the availability of six quarters of the new Outpatient Observation component of Hospital Case Mix Data. This component contains hospital data for the entire Fiscal Year 1998 and the first two quarters of Fiscal Year 1999. The Division releases this product in order to provide data to hospitals, consultants, strategic planners, policy makers, researchers, program evaluators and others who require timely data for analysis. The data could be used for the following Payer and insurer analysis Utilization analysis Hospital patient origin studies Strategic health planning Service line evaluations Market analysis Benchmarking Analysis for contracting Outpatient Observation Data is available on CD-ROM, in .TXT, .MDB, or .DBF formats. A manual containing general and technical documentation is included for your reference.
Additional programming is required to manipulate and analyze the data.
Limited multiple and multiple use licenses are also available. Next Back Back to Top of Page The Division is committed to protecting the privacy of persons whose observation stay and discharge information is included in the Case Mix Database. Next Back Back to Top of Page The Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy is the primary source for all Massachusetts inpatient and observation hospital discharge data. Each quarter, the Division actively edits the data. The Division encourages hospitals to verify and, if necessary, resubmit their data through mid-year and annual verification processes.