The Washington Health Alliance this week released its first-ever report looking at the total cost of care across Washington state through an equity lens in an effort to drive the conversation toward removing barriers to high-quality, affordable and equitable health care.
Relying on its All-Payer Claim database, covering 4.5 million Washington residents, the Alliance paired its extensive health care cost data with the Neighborhood Atlas, also known as Area Deprivation Index or ADI, a tool validated by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Merging the data with this tool allows the Alliance to show for the first time how socioeconomic advantage has a direct impact on the cost, utilization, and overall impact of health care in our state.
This latest release builds on work released in March of this year when the Alliance paired its leading health care quality analysis with the same ADI tool.
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