MyHealthcareSource Blog

Medicare cost report update status (Updated)

Chase — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:31:07 +0000

We are currently improving our system to make it a bit more automated. This shouldn’t take much longer. After we are done the updates should be available not too long after they are provided by CMS. Thanks for everybody’s patience.

Update (April 27th, 2012)

All of the Medicare cost reports for SNFs and Hospitals have been updated to the latest available CMS HCRIS data. We have also improved our update process and any future data updates should be completed very shortly after CMS releases the data.

The Myhealthcaresource Team

Minnesota Medicaid Cost Report Data Added

Chase — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:47:45 +0000

We have just finished loading Minnesota’s FY 2010 Medicaid cost report database into Myhealthcaresource. MN’s data contains a lot of information about beds, patient days, and RUGS. There are many more reports that should be useful to anyone working with facilities in MN.

This will probably be the last Medicaid state’s data updated for a while as we are focusing on some new features as well as updating all of the Medicare cost reports for SNFs and hospitals.

View a free example Minnesota facility: Augustana HCC Of Apple Valley

Thanks,

The MyHealthcareSource Team

Oklahoma Medicaid Cost Report Data Added

Chase — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:37:53 +0000

In addition to the recent additions of CA and OH we have added Oklahoma’s state Medicaid data to the site. It does not include as much information as some other states, but the information is does have seems very useful for most of our customer’s purposes. There are extensive salary reports, costs paid for contract services, patient days, and many others.

View a free example Oklahoma facility: Drumright Nursing Home

The MyHealthcareSource Team

California and Ohio Medicaid Cost Report Data Added

Chase — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:13:15 +0000

For about a year now we have had a partial extraction from the California and Ohio Medicaid cost reports. This was because we had done client work in which we needed to pull data from these reports, but we didn’t have enough time to add them to the primary site. In the past few weeks we have finally finished adding the data from the CA and OH Medicaid cost reports. They contain a lot of useful information. Ohio might now be one of our most detailed states.

We are working hard to add more Medicaid data when we have a chance. The states on the horizon currently are Arkansas, Massachusetts, and Minnesota. Some states we have worked with in the past, such as Texas, do not contain enough information to justify the time that is required for us to load the data into Myhealthcaresource.

We hope that some of our existing users who work across multiple states will find this information useful. We also look forward to working with new clients who sign up for these new states.

View a free example California facility: Colonial Healthcare

View a free example Ohio facility: Crandall Medical Center

Thanks,

The Myhealthcaresource Team

New Jersey Medicaid Data Update

Chase — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:08:53 +0000

For the fiscal year 2010 NJ changed their system from a standalone Medicaid cost report to a combination of the federal Medicare cost report and a supplemental Medicaid cost report.

We have handled this by extracting fields from our database of federal Medicare cost reports and combined this with the supplemental data provided by NJ Medicaid. We have tried to label the data provided by NJ Medicaid so that it is apparent. Because of this, we now have a field on one of the reports that specifies which FY period the facility’s Medicare report was from as well as which FY its Medicaid report is from. There might be cases where these are not the same because we are combining the data using our existing database. It is important to keep this in mind when browsing through the data.

View a Free Example New Jersey Facility: Care One at Jackson

The Myhealthcaresource Team

Newsletter: MyHealthcareSource Product Updates & $10 Exclusive Coupon

Chase — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:05:27 +0000

Updated FY 2010 Medicaid data. Hospital & SNF Medicare Cost Reports Available. Free $10 Credit Code.

Updates and News

2010 Fiscal Year Medicaid Data

Status of Medicaid Data Updates: Most of the available states have been updated to reflect the latest available fiscal year 2010 Medicaid data. Some states such as NJ have changed their reporting methods so we are changing our data parsers to handle this. FL & GA have been delayed slightly but are scheduled to be updated in the next week or so.

SNF Medicare Cost Reports

HCRIS SNF Data Available: We now have Medicare cost reports available for SNFs across the entire nation for fiscal years from 1996 to the latest available. In the near future we will have some more controls and extracted reports for our unlimited subscribers such as viewing how a value has changed over time and financial indicators graphs and tables. View Hawaii free.

Feedback

Let us Know What You Want: We are always looking for new data that can benefit our users. Let us know at support@ratchetsoftware.com

$10 Credit

$10 Coupon ‘SNF2012′: Ever since we released MyHealthcareSource publically in early 2009 our regular subscribers have been steadily growing and provide us great feedback. To show our appreciation, on the new user dashboard you may type SNF2012 to receive a $10 credit to your account that will be used towards any purchase made after the credit is redeemed. Valid through March 30th, 2012

Hospital Data

Hospital Medicare Cost Report Data Available: We have a separate product targeting hospital data that offers data and reports extracted from hospital Medicare cost reports. We will be focusing on growing the data we have available for hospitals throughout 2012.

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Medicare Cost Report Download Process Improved

Chase — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:06:51 +0000

Based on customer feedback, downloading Medicare cost reports as a PDF is less confusing and much faster for popular reports. We have also cleaned up some of the reports and added some more calculated fields.

We now process requested PDFs in the background. You can request a download and then wait or come back to click the link later and it will download immediately. Normally the wait should be less than a minute.

As just mentioned, we cache a good amount of generated reports. This means that once a user has downloaded a report, then the download should start right away for all the other users requesting that report.
We have added numerous ‘calculated fields’ to the reports so the forms are a little more complete with information that we calculate on the fly in addition to the information provided by HCRIS.
Some users were reporting issues when viewing the reports on certain systems. These should all be resolved now for users viewing using Adobe Reader. We still have a few issues with Preview on Macs.

We are currently updating all of our SNF Medicaid data but we pushed this update out early because some users were having issues downloading their purchased reports.

MyHealthcareSource Team

New York Medicaid Cost Report Data Update

Chase — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:49:15 +0000

The New York SNF Medicaid cost report data for Myhealthcaresource has now been updated to the latest fiscal year.

We have received many inquiries about when we will have the NY Medicaid data online. We have recently received the data and the data should be online by tomorrow (Dec. 29th). The other states data should follow throughout the following week. We will make a much larger announcement when all of the data has been updated.

View a Free Example New York Facility: Coldspring Hills Center

MyHealthcareSource Team

Hospital & SNF Cost Report Data Services Now Connected

Chase — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:58:59 +0000

Hospital Medicare cost reports and SNF Medicare & Mediciad cost report data are now both under the same domain and easy to navigate between the two products.
With the most recent release we have updated our nursing home Medicare and Medicaid cost report data product to the design of the recently released hospital version.
Users can now navigate between the two easily with the tabs on the left hand side of the page. Although we currently do not have shared subscriptions for the two sites, this may be allowed in the future depending on interest.
During the month of December our focus will be on updating all of the SNF Medicaid cost report data we currently have available to the most recently released fiscal year. When this happens we will be updating the blog to let users know.
Following the Medicaid data updates we will be expanding the data available to ‘Unlimited’ subscribers by creating some downloadable Excel reports extracted from the CMS Medicare cost reports for both SNFs and hospitals.

View Hospital Data

View SNF Data

Hospital Medicare Cost Report Data & New Site Design

Chase — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:49:02 +0000

It has been a long time coming but it has finally arrived. Myhealthcaresource.com for hospital data is now available and our initial offering focuses on hospital Medicare cost reports. In the near future that will also include selected extracted reports from the cost reports and other data sets. Hospital cost reports can be purchased for $55 each and pretty soon financial indicators can be unlocked for a facility for $99.

Another huge step for us is we totally redesigned our site. Users that have accounts now have a user dashboard to manage their purchases and their favorite facilities or hospitals. We have been working on this for several months now in parallel with loading in Medicare hospital data. Also, cost report viewing in the browser has now been revamped to include easier controls on the bottom right. We hope the new site makes it easier for users to manage their data and find new data that they didn’t know we provided.

We will continue to add new data on a more frequent basis and will include updates about it on this blog. This is in part because the blog is now included on the user dashboard so it is now more prominent when a user is browsing the site.

View Hospital Data

Thanks from the Myhealthcaresource.com Team