Key Highlights from CT Department of Social Services Transparency Advisory Council Meeting
Discover the latest updates and plans discussed at the Transparency Advisory Council Meeting by the CT Department of Social Services. Explore progress reports, challenges faced, people served, cost transparency, quality measures, and upcoming initiatives for 2023.
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Transparency Advisory Council Meeting February 22, 2023 CT Department of Social Services
Agenda Welcome Progress So Far Further Plans for 2023 Highlight of Challenges CT Department of Social Services
Progress Report CT Department of Social Services
What Weve Done Since our Last Meeting Dashboard data has been refreshed with all year 2022 data People Served Dashboard Published select cost benchmarks for 2020 and 2021* In process of publishing Medicaid Category of Expenditure for state fiscal year 2013-2022 on the Open Data Portal Cost Data Published HEDIS medical, dental, and behavioral health quality measures from 2018-2020* Quality Data * Data can be found here CT Department of Social Services
People Served Beta Version CT Department of Social Services
Cost Transparency Current Data Proposed Upgrades Publishing 10-year Medicaid COS expenditure data on the Open Data Portal. Create Tableau visualizations with the same dataset CT Department of Social Services
Quality Transparency Published FY 2018-2020 HEDIS measures for: Medical Dental Behavioral CT Department of Social Services
Further 2023 Plans CT Department of Social Services
What We Plan on Doing in 2023 Quality Data Financial People Served Dashboard Update HEDIS data to include 2021 data in March Refresh report with 2022 data in July Expand to include new measures such as prevalence rates of acute and chronic diseases* utilization for chronic diseases Inpatient utilization for chronic diseases follow-up after ED visits Additional filtering parameters Continued updating with CY 2023 data Update cost data with 2022 data by July Refresh COS expenditure data with SFY 2023 data by July *DM, HTN, Asthma, COPD, CAD, mental health disorders, obesity, cancer, substance use disorder CT Department of Social Services
Highlight of Challenges CT Department of Social Services
High-Level Challenges So Far Data is fragmented across various internal systems ( Data warehouse, QM Eval, Exhibit E reports, MAR reports, etc.) and ASOs Technology Insufficient people with the requisite expertise to pull the data together (for instance, query the data from the warehouse) and produce the needed quality measures People People with expertise within DSS have limited bandwidth to support effort Absence of established mechanism to pull together existing data within DSS systems Lengthy process to obtain data from various sources Process Legal/procedural barriers to securing data external to DSS - for instance data held by DPH CT Department of Social Services
