DATA ACCESS, ANALYSIS, and COMMUNICATION

Data access is dependent on picking the right database to meet the objectives of our clients and their projects.   By accessing private, federal and state data sources we can tailor our data source to meet a client's needs.

Taking Data to the Next Level

Our team of affiliated researchers can access and analyze:

• A Proprietary Employer Database
• A longitudinal dataset beginning in 2001
• Includes information on benefit design, co-pays, deductibles, out-of-pocket costs, demographic, job-related information, and absence time and costs by different components (Sick-Leave, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Workers' Compensation). 
• Using this database, we’ve explored:
• Health Benefit Costs—Direct and indirect components (not proxies).
• Direct Medical Costs and Services by Point/Place of Service.
• Absenteeism—Actual data for time associated with leaves and absences.
• Presenteeism—Objectively measured worker output data (proprietary widgets).
• The Severity of Illness
• Persistence and Compliance (P&C), and
• Comorbidities
• US Based Commercial and Medicare Databases
• Over the Counter (OTC)/Consumer Data--(with Medical and Prescription Components)
• Electronic Medical Records—Plan and condition specific systems
• Hospital Data
• Government based data—Medicaid, Medicare, and dual-eligible populations, and
• Other specialty sources

Recent Retrospective Database projects include:

• Comparing the costs and absences of products used to treat chronic conditions such as multiple sclerosis and hepatitis-c.
• Identifying patients tolerant to therapies
• The incremental impact of conditions such as GERD (gastrooesophageal reflux disease), insomnia, and pain on employees
• Examining the costs, prevalence, and services of standardized comorbidity categories associated with various conditions and the relationship of comorbidity categories to specific conditions.
• Comparisons of Fixed Dose Combination products with Lose Dose Combination products on costs, absence, and patient persistence with therapies.
• Comparative research on the adherence and compliance in Multiple Sclerosis and the impact of add-back therapy on patient compliance in persons with Endometriosis.
• The impact of plan design and co-pays on patient persistence and adherence with therapies.
• Using Medicaid data, annual timeframes, and pre-post designs.

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