1. RWJF: Hospital Price
Transparency Challenge
Webinar Presentation
Date: June 18th, 2013

2. On today’s call:
Kathy
Hempstead
Senior Program
Officer
RWJF
Jean-Luc
Neptune
Senior Vice
President
Health 2.0
Hemali
Thakkar
Challenge
Manager
Health 2.0
Chris Powers
Director,
Information
Products Group
CMS

3. Agenda for Today’s Webinar
 RWJF
 Challenge Background & Goals
 Challenge Categories & Phases
 Timeline
 Resources
 CMS Data Overview
 Q & A

4. Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Mission: To improve the health and health care
of all Americans

5. Background
 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation previous
challenges:
 #1: RWJF Aligning Forces Challenge
 #2: RWJF Games to Generate Data Challenge
 Now #3: Hospital Price Transparency Challenge

6. Challenge Goals
 The RWJF Hospital Price Data Challenge is
designed to increase understanding and use
of recently released CMS hospital price data.
 Category A: Visualizations
 Category B: Apps & Tools
Use of outside data is encouraged.

7. Challenge Categories
 Category A: Visualizations
 Static or Interactive
 Provide effective data visualizations that help the
public understand, explore and interpret the price
data
 Category B: Apps & Tools
 Provide an analytical capacity
 Improve health care decision-making

8. Category A: Visualization
 Only 1 Phase
 Submission requirements (submit via
visualizing.org): visualization, video pitch (3 minutes),
250 word text description
 Deadline: August 25
 Prizes:
 Interactive
 1st Place - $9K | 2nd Place - $7K | 3rd Place - $3K
 Static
 1st Place - $6K | 2nd Place - $3.5K | 3rd Place - 1.5K

9. Category B: Apps & Tools
 Phase I – Concept
 Submission requirements: text description of concept (250
words), wireframes, 10 slides
 Awards: 5 Finalists awarded $5,000 each and eligibility for
Phase II
 Deadline: August 4
 Phase II – Development
 Eligibility: Phase I Finalist
 Submission requirements: working application, slide deck (10
slides), and demo video (5 min), description
 Awards: First Place $50,000 and demo opportunity, Second
Place $10,000, Third Place $5,000

10. Category A: Timeline
 Launch: June 3, 2013
 Deadline: August 25, 2013
 Winners notified: September 15, 2013
 Winners announced: October 1, 2013 at
Health 2.0 Fall Conference

11. Category B: Timeline
 Phase I launch: June 3, 2013
 Phase I end: August 4, 2013
 Finalists announced: September 16, 2013
 Phase II end: November 3, 2013
 Winners announced: December 9, 2013

12. Resources -- Data Sets
 CMS Pricing Data (Inpatient)
 CMS Pricing Data (Outpatient)
 Health Indicators Warehouse
 Healthdata.gov
 Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

13. Hospital Charge Analysis using
Medicare Claims Data
RWJF Hospital Price Transparency Challenge Data Webinar
Office of Information Products and Data
Analytics
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
June 18, 2013

17. Methods

18. Documentation

19. Data

20. Excel Filtering
2,750 hospitals that performed major joint
replacement without complications or
comorbidities are included in the file.
Of these 2,750 hospitals, 60 were in the
state of New Jersey.
Of the 60 hospitals in New Jersey, 30 had at
least 100 discharges in fiscal year 2011.

21. Average Covered Charges and Average Payments
DRG 470 in NJ: Hospitals with 100 or more discharges
Each pair of bars represents an individual hospital.

24. Data Usage Statistics: Downloads by State
as of 5/13/2013, 4 PM
Bubble Size represents the number of downloads. In the US, this figure
ranged from 221 in Wyoming to 11,972 in California.

25. Data Usage Statistics: Sample of
countries that have downloaded data
as of 5/13/2013, 4 PM
The charge data has been downloaded by individuals in over 50 countries.

26. Questions?
Pre-Register!
www.health2challenge.com
Contact Hemali Thakkar at:
hemali@health2con.com