Several HAC members formed the Ohio Data Group in 2005 to find a vendor to provide best-in-class data analysis and reporting services. This work group, which now including American Greetings, Danaher Corporation, National City and Nationwide Insurance, reviewed vendors for individual HAC members to: 

• combine claims data
• understand utilization and cost trends
• target initiatives
• perform eligibility audits
• evaluate vendor program ROI

Ohio Data Group
The Ohio Data Group selected Ingenix and the Parallax i tool ™, their web-based health and productivity decision support portal.  Ingenix has offered Health Action Council Ohio members very competitive services and terms.  Standard services include:

• Data warehouse implementation, data release agreement and fee facilitation, eligibility development and mapping, data acquisition and setup
• Customized employer scorecard delivered at the same frequency as data updates (quarterly for monthly updates)
• Customized HAC scorecard delivered midyear
• Customized HAC-wide performance report presented, in person, to HAC members
• All grouper and risk methodologies in the tool
• Evidence-based medicine rules built into the tool
• All available norms and benchmarks
• With each license, training and ongoing technical support and
• Performance guarantees worth 10% of fees. 

For more information, contact bzakrajsek@hacOHIO.org or visit www.ingenix.com/Products/Employers

The Future
With the Ohio Data Group now collectively including claims data for four HAC members, additional benefits will include:

• User Group support and sharing of best practices
• Ohio State-level analysis of cost and utilization trends
• Ohio population health studies to target statewide initiatives and
• Ohio Leapfrog opportunity rate studies.