Data Visualizations & Tools

In February 2019, CMS proposed several updates to Hospital Compare’s overall hospital star ratings system, including an update that would allow consumers to customize hospitals’ star ratings based on their personal preferences. HANYS created this data visualization to show how this approach would in many cases shift hospital scores higher or lower than the CMS-issued ratings, which are already flawed. Members submitted comments to CMS via this page, urging CMS to fix ratings methodology flaws.

Contact: Mason Forando

Each year, the Robert Wood Johnson foundation releases county health rankings to demonstrate geographic differences across a number of health indicators. Published online at countyhealthrankings.org, Robert Wood Johnson aggregates and analyzes 35 individual measures and provides county level rankings across six subdomains: Length of Life, Quality of Life, Health Behaviors, Clinical Care, Social & Economic Factors, and Physical Environment. After determining rankings on each of these subdomains, Robert Wood Johnson also provides rankings on two overarching domains: Health Factors and Health Outcomes.

This dashboard visualizes the county health rankings data in New York and is intended to provide an at-a-glance look at driving health factors and outcomes that could be used to inform healthcare policy. Of note, all data are provided at the county level and mask underlying variation that may exist at the ZIP code/census tract level.

Contact: Adam Mandel

In recent years, most states throughout the country have seen a significant increase in opioid-related health events.  Unfortunately, this increase has led to major growth in opioid-related emergency room (ER) visits and deaths.  As a result, the opioid epidemic has attracted the attention of policy makers at local, state, and national levels. 

The opioid epidemic is multi-faceted and the cause of the growing opioid problem cannot be isolated to a single driving factor.  This storyboard outlines a number of different data points/resources to help provide context to the opioid epidemic in the US and New York and advance dialogue on what can be done to help.  The data trends include:

• drug-induced death rates nationally;
• drug overdoses leading to hospital admissions in New York State; and
• ER visits related to opioid drugs;

Contact: Jack Delaney

This analysis shows enrollment changes for Article 44 HMOs operating in the state of New York. Within the dashboard, enrollment trends are shown for all lines of business. Additionally, the dashboard allows you to drill into specific managed care plan lines of businesses (e.g. Medicaid, Medicare, etc.) and visualize changes in managed care enrollment within each county in New York.

Contact: Christina Gahan

This analysis shows how individual expense categories that make up a Medicaid managed care plan’s total medical expenses have changed over time.  The dashboard displays expense categories such as Hospital, Pharmacy, and Physician expenditures as a percent of total from 2011 to 2015.  The dashboard also allows you to drill into specific managed care plans and view data on a per-member per-month (PMPM) basis or gross expenditures.

Contact: Christina Gahan