New Hampshire
Category
Title or Name of APCD System
  • New Hampshire Comprehensive Health Care Information System
Who Maintains the System
  • The NH Insurance Department and NH Department of Health and Human Services partner to maintain NHCHIS
Website
Legal Authority
Investment
  • Approximately $3M since 2005
Statute
Submission Rules
Release Policy
First Year APCD Collected Data
  • 2005
APCD Snapshot
  • The New Hampshire Comprehensive Healthcare Information System began accepting claims submissions in 2005 in response to a need for more transparency in the commercial insurance system. The drivers listed in their statute include the provision of a resource for continuous review of health care utilization, expenditures, and performance data by insurers, purchasers, employers, providers and state agencies. Also expressed was the goal to help consumers and employers make informed and cost effective health care choices. In addition, data were desired for comparison to Medicaid quality, cost, utilization, and price.
Number of Commercial Sources of Claims Data
  • 26
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
  • Also planned is the collection of some form of uninsured claim information.
Types of Data Collected 
Medical Claims
  • Currently Collected
Eligibility
  • Currently Collected
Dental
  • Currently Collected
Pharmacy
  • Currently Collected
Primary Users/Uses
  • For the NH Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Medicaid Business and Policy (OMPB), the reporting agenda is focused on how health care quality, access, use, and cost vary geographically, between providers, and most importantly between the Medicaid-covered and commercially insured populations as well as benchmarking of payment rates. The NHID is using the claims data to better understand the health insurance market in New Hampshire as well as to provide New Hampshire residents with information about the cost of health care services. To date, the NHID has developed the NH HealthCost website for insurers and is in the process of developing a second website for employers.
Future Plans
  • None at this time.
Consumer Website
State Specific Resources
Contact Information