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Primary Care and Specialty Clinics Annual Utilization Data Notes
The clinic annual utilization data includes two types of clinics: primary care clinics and specialty clinics. Primary care clinics, which include community and free clinics, offer a full range of primary care services to the uninsured and underinsured in their communities. Specialty clinics include freestanding surgical, chronic dialysis, and rehabilitation clinics as well as alternative birth centers. All licensed clinics must file either an Annual Utilization Report of Primary Care Clinics or an Annual Utilization Report of Specialty Clinics with the Office at the end of each calendar year.
Beginning in 2002, clinics began submitting data to OSHPD through an Internet based reporting system known as ALIRTS (Automated Licensing Information and Report Tracking System). Once a report is submitted and meets edit criteria, it immediately becomes available to the public via ALIRTS (Advanced Search). After all individual clinic reports are received and approved, OSHPD creates the Primary Care Clinic Database and the Specialty Clinic Database from which the following products are produced.
Primary Care Clinics Complete Database
The complete database of annual utilization data reported by primary care clinics contains basic clinic identification information including community services, clinic staffing data, and patient and staff language data; financial information including gross revenue, itemized write-offs by program, an income statement, and selected capital project items; and information on encounters by service, principal diagnosis, and procedure codes (CPT codes). The documentation, including report forms, is available for each reporting year.
Specialty Clinics Complete Database
The complete database of annual utilization data reported by specialty clinics contains basic information including the number of surgical operating rooms, number of surgeries performed, number of patients, number of encounters by service type, and major capital expenditures. The documentation, including report forms, is available for each reporting year.
Important Note about Preliminary and Final Utilization data:
Starting with the 2005 annual utilization data file, there will be two phases of data released. The preliminary data file released in the spring will contain data that has passed the prescribed set of fatal errors in the ALIRTS system and was therefore accepted into OSHPD. The second data file released in the fall will be the desk-audited data and is considered the final version of the annual utilization data file. Please note that this preliminary set of data will only be live and downloadable on the web page up and to the point that the final version is released and then the preliminary data file will be replaced by the final data file. The pivot tables will be created in the fall for the desk audited data.
Primary Care and Specialty Clinics Annual Utilization Data
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Attention Data Users: Please exercise caution when interpreting OSHPD data. The use of improper assumptions and analytical methods may result in erroneous or misleading conclusions. Conclusions drawn from OSHPD data are the sole responsibility of the user. Users should be aware that financial and utilization data products are based on a dynamic database that is constantly being updated. As a result, the same data item for a facility may change over time or be different between products.