Leveraging Multi-Payer Claims Databases for Value

This issue brief looks at the progress states and community organizations have made in using their all payer claims databases (APCDs) or other multi-payer claims databases for various strategic purposes, and offers considerations for states that are seeking to optimize their own claims databases to achieve health care system performance improvement goals. It identifies three broad data use categories and provides a high-level description of the approaches taken by select states and one community organization, with attention to practices that may not be as widely used across states, or in areas that states and community organizations are just beginning to pursue.