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A COVID-19 Primer: Analyzing Health Care Claims, Administrative Data, and Public Use Files
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A COVID-19 Primer: Analyzing Health Care Claims, Administrative Data, and Public Use Files

Published: Dec 23, 2020
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Mathematica
Health COVID-19

Update

Updates to the ninth edition include information on:

  • The update covers new coding on vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnoses.

Authors

Alex Bohl

Michelle Roozeboom-Baker

Nineth revised and updated version now available

As COVID-19 disrupts people’s lives and livelihoods and threatens institutions around the world, the need for fast, data-driven solutions to combat the crisis is growing. This primer is designed to help researchers, data scientists, and others who analyze health care claims or administrative data (herein referred to as “claims”) quickly join the effort to better understand, track, and contain COVID-19. Readers can use this guidance to help them assess data on health care use and costs linked to COVID-19, create models for risk identification, and pinpoint complications that may follow a COVID-19 diagnosis.

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