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All-Payer Claims Database
A Note from Alliance Executive Director Nancy Giunto on the End of WA-APCD Contract Negotiations
June 30, 2022 by Washington Health Alliance
On June 10th, we received a letter from the Washington State Health Care Authority terminating contract negotiations with the Washington Health Alliance to serve as the Lead Organization for WA-APCD... Read more »Learning Module: Working Collaboratively to Achieve Price Transparency
April 19, 2018 by Washington Health Alliance
As part of its Getting to Affordability initiative, the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) and the Washington Health Alliance partnered to address how to work collaboratively to achieve price... Read more »Puget Sound Energy and SEIU 775 Benefits Group to submit data to Alliance’s APCD
March 29, 2018 by Washington Health Alliance
The Washington Health Alliance is excited to announce that Puget Sound Energy and SEIU 775 Benefits Group have agreed to become data suppliers for the Alliance’s voluntary All-Payer Claims Database... Read more »Reporting on Pricing a Critical Step in Alliance’s Promotion of Transparency
May 16, 2017 by Nancy A. Giunto
At the Alliance, we define high-value health care as high quality and good patient experience at a fair price. Over the past eleven years, and with the help and support... Read more »Data and convening remain the core of our work
September 9, 2016 by Nancy A. Giunto
It’s been an eventful summer for the Alliance, and I want to update you on the Alliance’s direction in the coming months. As you know, the state decided to select... Read more »Alliance leverages voluntary APCD as a public resource for promoting transparency
August 3, 2016 by Nancy A. Giunto
Shining a light on unwarranted variation in health care drives our efforts on public reporting of health care performance. In the coming weeks, we will be publishing reports on variation.... Read more »Alliance announces OFM selection of WA-APCD lead organization
July 27, 2016 by Washington Health Alliance
Today, the Alliance learned it has not been chosen by the Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) as the Apparently Successful Bidder to serve as the Lead Organization for the... Read more »Alliance projects promote health care transparency
July 7, 2016 by Nancy A. Giunto
Despite the beckoning summer sun, the Alliance team has been busier than ever working on projects that will provide value to not only our members, but to all health care... Read more »Washington state lags behind on health care cost transparency
May 11, 2016 by Nancy A. Giunto
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of presenting at the National Employer Leadership Seminar, an invitation-only event sponsored by the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI). The goal of... Read more »Improving Washington’s grade on price transparency
July 15, 2015 by Washington Health Alliance
No one likes a failing grade. But in the 2015 Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) – Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws, Washington... Read more »