Resources to download a UB-04/CMS-1450 and learn more about how to use it.

Links to public data across healthcare cost, utilization, drugs, children's health, mental health, quality, SDOH, emergency services, ED, IP, surveillance, vaccinations, adverse events, and a whole lot more.

This Guide dives deep into a CMS-1500 professional claim’s fields and descriptions. It also contains a downloadable Cheat Sheet and a downloadable reference table that formally lists all fields and their descriptions according to NUCC.

What Z-codes are, why they aren't working, and how they could work. Plus a spreadsheet of all the Z-codes that you can download.

Plus 15 data resources to pull a robust data profile that I have already vetted for ease of use, breadth, and value (so that you don’t have to). Think community needs assessment is just for tax-exempt hospitals and feel-good policy-making? Think again.

Plus a Big List of Example Questions to Get You Started

Healthcare data is inherently biased. Here’s how to not get duped by it.

Data and personal bias abound in healthcare due to a number of major systemic issues. And “bias” doesn’t always carry a connotation of prejudice; everything we do in our life is biased in some way. Learn how to avoid it in the data and in yourself.

This is a collection of the most common concepts, terms, and acronyms used in healthcare as I have grown to understand them through the lens of doing analytics over the last decade for this complex and tangled industry.