Center for Improving Value in Health Care

Happy New Year! After a pleasant holiday, we're excited to be back in the swing of things here at CIVHC. Here's where you can find us this month as we start off 2025!

What We're Reading: CIVHC's new ambulance analysis finds that six in ten common ambulance services are billed out-of-network in Colorado. Representative Kyle Brown talks how legislators may respond with Public News Service: https://lnkd.in/g2u8YfFh

How much would Clark Griswold's holiday misadventures hospital bills cost? Using CIVHC's Shop for Care tool, we can get an idea...and it looks like he would have to forget about that bonus after alll! From our team at CIVHC to you, have a happy, safe holiday!

In 2022 we celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the CO APCD and looked at the growth of CIVHC and the CO APCD since 2012. Two years later, thanks to you, the CO APCD continues to grow and innovate (and now has more than 1 BILLION claims!)

Get the latest on CIVHC's newly updated products, see how our featured Change Agents are using CO APCD data to improve price transparency in surgical costs, and catch up on our newly released ambulance costs analysis - all that and more in our latest newsletter! https://conta.cc/3DdKKfh

Our 2019 holiday card listed what holiday analytic tools we'd like to have. We'd still love to have any of these. Maybe our analysts can work on some of these for next year.

Today's holiday card throwback takes us to 2018, when we wished everyone "happy holidata" with this card. How much do you think these numbers have changed between then and now?

We love our Change Agents who are working to improve health and health care. As this holiday card from 2017 shows, we also love our Holiday Change Agents, who are working to spread cheer! Happy Holidays to Change Agents everywhere!

CIVHC's 2016 holiday card introduced us to some of the more interesting ICD-10 codes related to the holidays. We're particularly interested in Z63.1. This card is also a bit of a spoiler for this year's card...stay tuned!

We're leading up to the release of our 2024 CIVHC Holiday Card with a look back at cards of years past. Remember this data-driven card from 2015? Stay tuned for more holiday card throwbacks over the next week!