Access the provided website and find out if New Jersey participates in the HCUP program.
If your state does participate in this program, who is the contact person? give the name and the contact information
What is the HCUP program?
New Jersey participates in Health Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) as state partner. In 2008 New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services gave a file source that contains mixture of inpatient, ambulatory surgery (AS) records, emergency department (ED) records and other outpatient records. Records are related to admit and discharged documents of emergency cases and billing details with revenue generated.
If the HCUP is being participated by my state for example TEXAS then contact person would be
BRUCE BURNS
ManagerTexas
Health Care Information Collection
E-mail: [email protected]
Health Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is the project comprises of different components like databases, research tools, research publication and provides customer support. The project runs under US department of Health and Services. HCUP keeps records of multiyear, and all payer, inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory surgery databases. It is based on hospital billing data and there are different types of databases maintained with software tools. It has tabs for information about the funding & grants, policymaker and professionals. There is an option provided by using one can access the information according to alphabetic manner. Each mentioned category above includes their specific options as well like for policymakers there is information of impact case studies, assistance on health initiatives and measuring tools. Centers and offices have the information about centers allocated and designated persons so that they can be contacted at emergency time. HCUP supports customers with their issues and have different tools to record and analyze them.
HCUP uses different databases and research tools in following section we would be discussing four of them. There are many research tools and databases are available for different purposes.
- State inpatient database (SID):
This database contains the information about discharge records of community hospitals. Patients discharge documents with information regardless of payer. The SID contains approximately 97 percent of discharged data. It also includes clinical and nonclinical information of all patients including their personal insurance & includes covered individual Medicare.
- State Ambulatory Surgery and Service Databases (SASD):
The SASD contains encounter-level data about ambulatory surgeries and also various type services like radiation therapy, chemotherapy, lithotripsy, imaging, labor and delivery. It provides ambulatory surgery and outpatient services for nonhospital owned facilities. SASD is the popular tool in HCUP implementation because of its unique specifications and utilization.
HCUP net is one of the favorite tools of HCUP program because it is used for analyzing, tracking and comparing statistics on hospital and emergency care. The tool provides information form national wide databases like NID etc. It excretes information from state level databases as well. It provides information about the quality factor of organization.
- MONAHRQ:
It is the software product that enables organizations like state level database, hospital plans, charted value exchange to put their own hospital administrative data and generate data driven website. MONAHRQ data is used to compare the hospitals and also for measurement of quality factors. MONAHRQ websites are developed for public data and their support.
