Maryland
Title or Name of APCD System
- Maryland Health Care Commission Medical Care Data Base (MCDB)
Who Maintains the System
- Maryland Health Care Commission
Legal Authority
Investment
- Approximately $1 million dollars/year (Contractual funds for ongoing collection $400k/year, plus extramural analytic costs for research; policy analyses $250k/year, plus intramural studies/analytics; system maintenance $250,000/year, plus $100,000 for ov
Submission Rules
First Year APCD Collected Data
- 1998
APCD Snapshot
- The system in Maryland was set up for policy uses. Transparency applications are limited and physician/provider comparative quality uses are very limited. The APCD is better at supporting system wide comparisons versus quality.
Number of Commercial Sources of Claims Data
- 35
Sources and Status of APCD Data Collection
Payers
Commercial Payers
- Currently Collected
Third Party Administrators/Self-Funded
- Currently Collected
Medicaid
- Currently Collected
Medicare
- Currently Collected
Other
- No VA, self-pay, uninsured, or stand-alone TPA payers.
Types of Data Collected
Medical Claims
- Currently Collected
Eligibility
- Currently Collected
Pharmacy
- Currently Collected
Other
- DME Excluded; Medical data collection expanding to full in 2011---adding race/ethnicity/language also, pursuing these aggressively; Added pharmaceutical hospital claims data in 2010, from carriers
Primary Users/Uses
- Analyses of cost, efficiency, system utilization, and currently pushing to enhance geographic/racial difference capabilites.
Future Plans
- Full eligibility in 2011, adding race/ethnicity/language.
Consumer Website
Contact Information
For more information please contact Ken Yeates-Trotman at kenneth.yeates-trotman@maryland.gov.