CHIA Data User Workgroup Information

The CHIA Data User Workgroup meetings are opportunities for external data users and other interested parties to meet with CHIA’s in-house data experts to discuss analytical techniques and data-related matters. The meetings are also held to answer questions about CHIA's data as well as to announce news on data releases and enhancements.

Please feel free to join the CHIA Data User Workgroup mailing list to receive occasional email notifications regarding these webinar meetings.

You can attend these upcoming workgroups at the links below. Meetings usually take place on the 4th Tuesday of every month at 3:00 p.m. with the presentations posted shortly after the meetings.

 CHIA Data User Workgroup Meeting Presentations

• See archive of previous presentations

USER SUPPORT MATERIALS

Linking Claims Data to Member Eligibility ZIP Code Data (March 2023)

• Claims Linkage to ME One ZIP Code per Year Table (PDF) | PPT

User Support MA APCD Slides

• Ambulatory Surgery Centers - May 2021 (PDF) | PPT
• Trauma Centers - May 2021 (PDF) | PPT
• Medicare - March 2021 (PDF) | PPT
• Version Flags - May 2020 (PDF) | PPT
• Drug Quantity - January 2019 (PDF) | PPT
• New Linking Variables in MA APCD Release 6.0 - March 2018 (PDF) | PPT
• Alternative Medicine Claims in the MA APCD - March 2018 (PDF) | PPT
• Pharmaceutical Data in MA APCD vs Case Mix - Jan 2018 (PDF) | PPT
• Between File Linkages in the MA APCD - Aug 2017 (PDF) | PPT
• Member PCP ID vs Attributed PCP ID - June 2017 (PDF) | PPT
• How to Distinguish Inpatient from Outpatient APCD Claims - April 2017 (PDF) | PPT

User Support Case Mix Slides

• Handling Unknowns - August 2019 (PDF) | PPT
• Animal Bites - October 2018 (PDF) | PPT
• Glasgow Coma Scale - June 2018 (PDF) | PPT
• Difference Between Primary and Secondary Payer Type and Source - May 2017 (PDF) | PPT
• Diagnosis and Procedure Code Volume Post-ICD10 Switch - June 2018 (PDF) | PPT

Tutorials

• The Demographic Impact of Gobeille  - August 2020 (PDF) | PPT
• ICD 9 to ICD 10 Changes - Sept 2017 (PDF) | PPT
• What DRG versions are available in CHIA Inpatient Case Mix Data? (PDF) | PPT
• How to Count Patients Admitted from the ED in the HDD File (PDF) | PPT