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RWJF: Hospital Price
Transparency Challenge
Webinar Presentation
Date: June 18th, 2013
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
Agenda for Today’s Webinar
RWJF
Challenge Background & Goals
Challenge Categories & Phases
Timeline
Resources
CMS Data Overview
Q & A
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Mission: To improve the health and health care
of all Americans
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Resources -- Data Sets
CMS Pricing Data (Inpatient)
CMS Pricing Data (Outpatient)
Health Indicators Warehouse
Healthdata.gov
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
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
Methods
Documentation
Data
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.
Average Covered Charges and Average Payments
DRG 470 in NJ: Hospitals with 100 or more discharges
Each pair of bars represents an individual hospital.
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.
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.
Questions?
Pre-Register!
www.health2challenge.com
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