CRISP Reporting Services

Monthly Updates

View a recap of the CRISP Reporting Services (CRS) product features updated this month. CRS Product Release Summary

Overview

CRISP Reporting Service (CRS) believes that access to review past performance can enable change in future results. We are inspired to do our part in helping health care organizations achieve the triple aim by building reporting analytic tools with claims data (health care financial transactions for patient visits). CRS hosts a portal where users can access these reporting tools to filter and query the data from past claims to identify future opportunities or areas of improvement.

CRISP partners with the Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) to provide monthly reports to all Maryland hospitals. The CRS team can provide an updated analysis of inter-hospital trends and utilization by linking hospital all-payer Case Mix data with unique patient identifiers. Health care organizations leverage CRS reports to drive quality improvement, strategic planning, financial modeling, and other activities.

CRS uses multiple data sources to offer a unique perspective on readmission rates, potentially avoidable utilization, and other critical measures. All CRS products are approved by the Reporting and Analytics Committee, a subcommittee of the CRISP Board, and adhere to best practices in privacy and security.

Report Categories

Reports in the All Payer Population Reports mostly contain claims data from the Maryland All Payer Case Mix dataset. However, some reports listed here may combine multiple datasets like Medicaid and Medicare information.

You can learn more about the claims data available to CRISP on this webpage.

Below are the reports available to users within the All Payer Population Reports category (note: access to these reports is dependent on organization type and HIPAA status):

The Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) runs several quality-based measurement and payment initiatives. These initiatives are important policy tools for providing strong incentives for hospitals to improve their quality performance over time. These initiatives hold a portion of hospital revenue at-risk directly related to specified performance benchmarks.

The HSCRC currently runs a series of quality initiatives to ensure that hospitals improve quality in line with targets set in the Maryland All-Payer Model agreement with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), which runs from 20​14-2018. Quality programs provide financial incentives for hospitals to improve or maintain high quality performance on selected quality of care measures. Quality measures are typically classified into three categories: structural (such as patient to provider ratios or use of electronic health records), process (such as percentage of patients receiving preventive services), and outcome (for example, rate of complications). Where possible, the HSCRC works to employ the use of outcome measures. To learn more about the HSCRC Quality programs visit the HSCRC website, register to watch the a full webinar recording, or view this webinar slide deck.

The HSCRC  and CRISP produce monthly or quarterly regulatory reports to monitor hospitals based on the HSCRC quality programs. To learn more about these reports click one of the links from Available HSCRC Regulatory Reports below.

Below are the reports available to users within the HSCRC Regulatory Reports category (note: access to these reports is dependent on organization type and HIPAA status):

 

Reports for the Medicare population based on the Claim and Claim Line Feed (CCLF) data. This includes the MPA reports and the MADE application.

Claim and Claim Line Feed (CCLF): The CCLF (Claim and Claim Line Feed) data files are a set of Medicare claims files incorporating all Medicare Part A and B claims from Inpatient Facility, Outpatient Facility, Skilled Nursing Facility, Home Health Agency, Hospice, Professional, Durable Medical Equipment, and Prescription Drug services. These files contain beneficiary claim level data including Medicare payment amounts, diagnoses, procedures, dates of service, provider identifiers, and beneficiary copayment amounts.

You can learn more about the claims data available to CRISP on this webpage.

Below are the reports available to users within the Medicare Reports category (note: access to these reports is dependent on organization type and HIPAA status):

Public health reports contain the reports to support Statewide Public Health Programs, Monitoring, and Research.

Below are the reports available to users within the Public Health Reports category (note: access to these reports is dependent on organization type and HIPAA status):

Learn more about the CCLF Data Set

CCLF Data Basics

View the CCLF Data basics to gain a complete understanding of these Medicare data used to populate the CRS Medicare reports.

CRISP Reporting Services Portal

The CRISP Reporting Services (CRS) Portal provides secure access to Maryland health care data and related analytics tools to assist health care organizations in improving patient care throughout the state. The CRS Portal hosts a variety of static and interactive reports primarily from two main data sources, the HSCRC Case Mix data and Claim and Claim Line Feed data for Maryland. Reports are designed for an array of users including hospitals, primary care physicians, local health departments, and skilled nursing facilities. Users are able to look at patient and population level data based on the report, and our panel reports provide users the opportunity to look at population subset of their ENS Panel. When entering the CRS Portal, users will see blue cards on their screen based on the reports they are credentialed to view. The reports are condensed into eight blue tiles based on population and data source. Most users will only have access to some of the tiles, as reports are designed for multiple types of users. Users can easily navigate to their desire report through a series of tiers and can favorite frequented reports. The CRS Portal also contains information on the latest data refreshes, enhancements, and updates, so users can stay updated on changes.

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