Onpoint’s team -- expert in data integration, enhancement, analytics, delivery, and dynamic reporting -- assists our clients’ end-user communities in maximizing the use of their available data. Through collaborative webinar sessions, we work to ensure a transparent knowledge base and cross-train end users on how to most efficiently and effectively work with their data.

Navigating Complex Provider Information in Claims Data
 Event Date: December 11, 2024

How Healthcare Payment Mechanisms Work (Including a Live Query Demo)
 Event Date: October 9, 2024

Medical Service Line Flags, APR-DRG Updates, and Ambulance Claims, OH MY!
 Event Date: October 18, 2023

Onpoint Spotlight: Exploring Minnesota's Public Use Files
 Event Date: December 16, 2022

FIPS Enhancements & Linking Dental Data to Your APCD (Overview, Tips, & Use Cases)
 Event Date: June 28, 2022

Updates on Telehealth and COVID-19 Coding & Value-Adds in Your Data Sets
 Event Date: March 9, 2022

Introduction to APMs: Exploring Their Role in Claims & Non-Claims Data
 Event Date: December 8, 2021

Exploring the Quality Assurance Process, Part 2: Incoming APCD Data
 Event Date: April 14, 2021

Exploring the Quality Assurance Process, Part 1: Delivered Data Sets
 Event Date: February 10, 2021

Interpreting Medical Claims Using the Optimized Service-Line Flagging Table
 Event Date: December 16, 2020

A Preview of Upcoming COVID-19 Reporting & Data Availability in Your APCD Extracts
 Event Date: October 21, 2020

Understanding How the COVID-19 Pandemic Will Impact Your Upcoming APCD Data Sets
 Event Date: May 20, 2020

On-Pointers: Best Billing Practices for APCD Claims Data; COVID-19
 Event Date: March 18, 2020

Exploring the Differences Between Commercial & Medicaid/Medicare Data Sources
 Event Date: November 13, 2019

Deciphering Member Enrollment by Using the Enhanced Member-Month Table
 Event Date: September 24, 2019

Making the Most of Final Claims & Their Value-Adds 
 Event Date: May 28, 2019

What is Identity Resolution? Tracking Members & Providers Across Time & Payers 
 Event Date: March 26, 2019

Onpoint’s analytics team is focused on providing innovative and insightful analyses for our clients. Whether independently authored or created in close collaboration with our clients’ teams, our team’s analytic studies are designed to advance the conversation, explore new opportunities, and shed light on how healthcare can be delivered as effectively as possible. 

Team publications include:

Linking Claims & Death Certificate Data to Calculate End-of-Life Measures
(February 2025)
News Release | Issue Brief (PDF)
Ma, A

Tracking Virginia’s 2023 Health Care Spending & Employment Trends
(January 2025)
News Release | Full Text PDF
Perloff J, Shaw S

Calculating Adjustment Factors for Primary Care Capitation Payments in California
(August 2024)
News Release | Issue Brief (PDF)
McGraves-Lloyd K (with contributions from Finison K, Gottlieb D, Yanagihara D)

Using Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes (RUCAs) for Expanded APCD Analyses
(June 2024)
News Release | Issue Brief (PDF)
Kinner A, Ferguson F

A New Method to Enhance Provider-to-Practice Attribution Using Healthcare Claims Data
(May 2024)
News Release | Issue Brief (PDF)
Drummond J, Kinner A

Recommendations for Collecting Non-Claims-Based Payments from States
(April 2024)
News Release | Issue Brief (PDF)
McGraves-Lloyd K (with contributions from Kinner A, Finison K)

Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner (WA OIC) – Gender Affirming Treatment (GAT) Study
(November 2022)
Full Text PDF | On Washington State OIC website
Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) (with Onpoint Health Data)

The New England States’ All-Payer Report on Primary Care Payments
(December 2020)
News Release | Full Text PDF | On NESCSO website
Slusky R, Conrad C, Drummond J, Finison K, McGraves-Lloyd K, Spaulding J, Huffman D, Nicolella E, Block R, Jones C

Gauging the Experiences of the Seriously Ill in California: Analyzing Serious Illness Beyond Medicare Fee-for-Service
(July 2020)
News Release | On American Journal of Accountable Care website | DOI
Anderson D, Yanagihara D, Japinga, M, Saunders R, with data support from Onpoint
The American Journal of Accountable Care. 2020;8(2):22-25.

Primary Care Expenditures: Summary of Current Primary Care Expenditures & Investment in Washington
(December 2019)
News Release | Full Text PDF | On Washington State OFM website
Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM), Forecasting and Research (with data support from Onpoint)

Statewide Data Infrastructure Supports Population Health Management: Diabetes Case Study
(October 2017)
Full Text PDF | On American Journal of Managed Care website
Jones C, Mohlman MK, Jorgenson D, Finison F, McGee K, Kastensmith H
Am J Manag Care. 2017;23(10):e331-e339.

Synthesis of Research on Patient-Centered Medical Homes Brings Systematic Differences Into Relief
(March 2017)
Full Text PDF | On Health Affairs website | DOI
Sinaiko AD, Landrum MB, Meyers DJ, Alidina S, Maeng DD, Friedberg MW, Kern LM, Edwards AM, Flieger SP, Houck PR, Peele P, Reid RJ, McGraves-Lloyd K, Finison K, Rosenthal MB
Health Aff (Millwood). March 2017 vol. 36 no. 3 500-508.

Risk-Adjustment Methods for All-Payer Comparative Performance Reporting in Vermont
(January 2017)
Full Text PDF | On BMC Health Services Research website | DOI
Finison K, Mohlman MK, Jones C, Pinette M, Jorgenson D, Kinner A, Tremblay T, Gottlieb D
BMC Health Serv Res. 2017, 17:58.

Impact of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction on Medicaid Expenditures and Health Services Utilization Rates in Vermont
(August 2016)
Full Text PDF | On Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment website | DOI
Mohlman MK, Tanzman B, Finison K, Pinette M, Jones C
J Subst Abuse Treat. August 2016, vol. 67: 9-14.

Vermont's Community-Oriented All-Payer Medical Home Model Reduces Expenditures and Utilization While Delivering High-Quality Care
(June 2016)
Full Text PDF | On Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers website | DOI
Jones C, Finison K, McGraves-Lloyd K, Tremblay T, Mohlman MK, Tanzman B, Hazard M, Maier X, Samuelson J
Popul Health Manag. 2016;19:196–205.

Tracking Spending Among Commercially Insured Beneficiaries Using a Distributed Data Model
(August 2014)
Full Text PDF | On American Journal of Managed Care website
Colla CH, Schpero WL, Gottlieb DJ, McClurg AB, Albert PG, Baum N, Finison K, Franzini L, Kitching G, Knudson S, Parikh R, Symes R, Fisher ES
Am J Manag Care. 2014;20(8):650-657.