Pediatric Primary Care Mapping Project
As requested by Dr. Steve Poole of the Colorado Children’s Healthcare Access Program (CCHAP), the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) created a series of maps to assist CCHAP in its needs assessment and strategic planning process. Ultimately, the maps are intended to assist CCHAP in determining where to focus its efforts with respect to Medicaid and CHP+ private provider recruitment. To that end, the maps summarize where children enrolled in the Medicaid and the Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) programs live relative to providers who potentially could provide primary care services to them.

The State of Colorado’s Health Care Safety Net: Safety Net Indicators and Monitoring (SNIMS) 2009 Progress Report

Recognizing the importance of Colorado’s safety net and the challenges it has faced historically, The Colorado Health Foundation provided a two-year grant to the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) in 2005 to establish a Safety Net Indicators and Monitoring System (SNIMS) for Colorado. With this support, CHI has developed a data-driven reporting system that identifies, describes and monitors Colorado’s health care safety net providers and the populations they serve annually.

Presentation: What Do We Know about Colorado’s Health Care Safety Net? Provider and user profiles from the Safety Net Indicators and Monitoring System’s (SNIMS) first annual report

Findings from CHI's first report from its Safety Net Indicators and Monitoring System project. Nearly 500 safety net clinical sites in Colorado are represented in the database.

Presented to: 2009 Colorado Safety Net Symposium

Medicare Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS)
The Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS) dataset contains provider information such as facility characteristics, utilization data, cost and charges by cost center in total and for Medicare. The dataset consists of every data element included in the HCRIS extract created for CMS by a provider's fiscal intermediary. Financial statement data and reimbursement data are included.

Medicare Hospital Service Area File
This database can be used to define hospital service areas for Medicare addmissions. The file contains the number of discharges, length of stay and total charges summarized by provider number and ZIP code of patient's residence.

State Ambulatory Surgery Databases
The State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD) are a powerful set of databases that capture surgeries performed on the same day in which patients are admitted and released. They contain the ambulatory surgery encounter abstracts in 27 participating states, including Colorado, translated into a uniform format to facilitate multi-state comparisons and analyses.
All of the databases include abstracts from hospital-affiliated ambulatory surgery sites. They contain a core set of clinical and nonclinical information on all patients, regardless of payer, including persons covered by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance and the uninsured.
The databases are developed as part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a federal-state-industry partnership sponsored by ARQH.