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The cost of a year of healthcare: Categorizing 500 million claims
Healthcare spending exhibits trends based on demographics, like maternity and ultrasound for women 25-35 and outpatient children’s care.
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How healthcare leaders optimize utilization management and cost containment. Improve quality, reduce costs, and improve your population’s overall health.
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How ACOs and healthcare organizations can use data for end-of-life care
“As patients near the end-of-life, an organization will want to make sure that they receive the appropriate treatments to be comfortable, maintain a good quality of life and have their preferences about dying honored....
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Referral networks: Looking for optimization opportunities
Visualizing physician referrals, color coded as in-network or out-of-network, we can see potential opportunities and gaps within a network.
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Booking ahead: The early bird will be seen now
A calendar-view of appointments at a 25-physician provider group reveals that the majority are booked at the end of the year, at least a month in advance.
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Utilization density plot: Cost and utilization of 50k ACO patients
50,000 patients show individual pathologies and community trends. Here, we see how three different cohorts’ yearly visits translate to healthcare costs.
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Confounding correlations: Enlightenment and noise in the age of so much data
In an age of expanding data and increasingly powerful tools to process and visualize it, it’s increasingly difficult to filter out the noise and find meaning in a sea of numbers. With this piece, Arcadia vice president...
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Medicare ACO performance
An updated visualization of Medicare ACO Performance compares risk, enrollment size, cost, and savings for 392 ACOs using a 2017 CMS data set.
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Emergency department usage: Travel paths and frequent flyers
In a year, one patient visited an Emergency Department 296 times. How can healthcare networks better serve pain-ridden ED “frequent flyers”?
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End of life procedures: The most frequent services in the final 12 weeks
Looking at the top 32 most provided services, Arcadia visualizes common costs of end-of-life care, from x-rays to CT scans.
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Prescription drug movements: 5 years of popularity and cost shifts
Follow the price and popularity of several drugs, from Xeljanz to insulin, as they become mainstays (or lose traction) in the healthcare marketplace.
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The final year: Where and how we die
Where and how we end our lives is an important healthcare concern. Here, an artist visualizes cause of death alongside location, from hospice to home.
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Co-occurrence of rendering providers: Density of patients seeing multiple providers in a service year
A look at how often patients see multiple providers per year, grouped by specialty. Patterns show allegiance to a primary care physician.