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Utah Primary Care Spend Calculation Project

The Utah Department of Health, Office of Health Care Statistics (OHCS) produced this primary care spend report for the Utah Academy of Family Physicians (UAFP). In late 2020, the Office...
April 14, 2021

Exploring the Cost of Cataract Surgery in Utah

By: Brantley Scott The Utah Department of Health, Office of Health Care Statistics (OHCS) produced this report at the request and under the direction of the Transparency Advisory Group (TAG)....
March 24, 2021

Exploring the Cost of Colonoscopy in Utah

The Transparency Advisory Group selected colonoscopies as a procedure with high health care value for Utahns. This report identifies differences in costs between certain facilities as well as the variation...
March 24, 2021

DataByte: A Look at Emergency Department Visits for Migraine in Utah’s Urban, Rural, and Frontier Areas

Every 10 seconds, someone in the U.S. goes to the emergency room complaining of head pain, and approximately 1.2 million visits are for acute migraine attacks. In Utah, there has...
March 8, 2021

DataByte: Flu Vaccination Trends

By Brantley Scott The United States has been gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic for most of 2020. In Utah, the number of cases and hospitalizations have increased markedly over the...
December 15, 2020

Preliminary COVID-19 Healthcare Trends: A Snapshot from Utah’s All Payer Claims Database (UPDATED 2020-12-15)

The intent of these reports is to highlight emerging COVID-19 healthcare consumption trends using Utah’s All Payer Claims Database (APCD) and Healthcare Facility Database (HFD)....
December 15, 2020

Utah Health Plan Quality of Care Report 2020

This report displays results showing the quality of care members received under each Medicaid/CHIP health plan and commercial health plan reporting to the Office of Health Care Statistics as measured...
December 2, 2020

DataByte: Induced Delivery Trends in Utah

The results show an upward trend in the percentage of induced deliveries over the period of analysis (January 2016–June 2020). During the first quarter of 2016, about 32.6% of deliveries...
October 20, 2020

DataByte: Autism Awareness

By Brantley Scott April is Autism Awareness Month and the Office of Health Care Statistics at the Utah Department of Health, in partnership with the Disability and Health Program, decided...
May 13, 2020

All Payer Claims Database – Data User Manual

Covers use of data from the Utah APCD. https://gitlab.com/UtahOHCS/APCD_DUM/-/blob/master/Utah_APCD_Data_User_Manual.md...
March 3, 2020

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