New Price Transparency Site Launched
SDAHO is excited to announce the launch of a new price transparency site. The new site, South Dakota Hospitals Charge Compare, provides healthcare consumers...
Quality Corner: Focusing on Data
This month’s Quality Corner is focused on Data. Data is at the core of quality. Data is more than plugging numbers into a portal.  Without...
IPOP and Dimensions Reporting to Require Passphrases by Dec 15
IPOP and Dimensions Reporting databases will transition to a passphrase requirement. Users need to update their password to a passphrase before December 15, 2021....
CMS Announces Expansion of Medicare Accelerated Payment Program
Expanded eligibility during the COVID-19 emergency will allow expedited payments to Medicare providers and suppliers.
Building on provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic...
Inpatient/Outpatient- Dimensions Database Annual Meeting
The Inpatient
and Outpatient (IPOP)/Dimensions Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 7,
2019 from 10 a.m.–2:00p.m. CST at the Hilton
Garden Inn South Sioux Falls. Lunch will...
CMS UPDATE: Updates to Drug Assistance Program, Data Sharing Agreement User Guides Now Available
Updates have been made to the following Drug Assistance Program, Data Sharing Agreement user guides:
AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP)Patient Assistance Program (PAP)State Pharmaceutical Assistance...
Demographics dashboard now available on HRSA website
The Department of Health & Human Services Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) has added a demographics dashboard to their data website, data.hrsa.gov. The...
County health rankings report released by RWJ Foundation
Does where a person live influence health? Research shows the answer to that question is yes. The Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation, in collaboration...
SDAHO hosts Dimensions Statewide User Group meeting
The South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations (SDAHO) hosted its second annual Dimensions Statewide User Group (SUG) meeting on March 20. The meeting was...
Health care spending to rise 5.5 percent annually through 2026
United States health care spending is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.5 percent from 2017 through 2026, faster than the...
