Recent Blogs

Updated DocGraph HOP Teaming PUF Released During Health Datapalooza 2022

By Alma Trotter | April 3, 2022

ARLINGTON – CareSet released the updated DocGraph HOP Teaming Dataset during the 2022 Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference. The release offers the most detailed and up-to-date picture of patient-sharing relationships between all Medicare providers in the US healthcare system. This public use file provides some of the most timely and necessary insights into…

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Regulatory Foreshadowing From JPM Healthcare 2022

By Ashish Patel | February 15, 2022

The 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, January 10-13, brought strategic insights. This year, I spoke with Deloitte, specifically partners in the regulatory practice and leaders of the regulatory strategies group. This team seeks discussion with healthcare executives who look at the regulatory environment as input to strategy endeavors. As an industry as heavily regulated…

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HCPCS Code Change Transforms Landscape of Preventative Care

By Ashish Patel | December 6, 2021

Until now, healthcare providers spent up to 40% of their time on administrative tasks, largely due to the complexity of the code system. Spending more time on paperwork meant spending less time with patients which was frustrating for everyone. Recently, the AMA revised the definitions for Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes in the Current Procedural…

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Finding, Treating, and Curing Rare Diseases

By Ashish Patel | November 29, 2021

Picture the following scenario: A patient presents with symptoms including numbness, tremors, and occasional weakness, among others. Genetic testing exists to check for rare cardiovascular diseases and defects, but it is expensive and not currently listed as part of the diagnosis protocol. Because of this, his doctors didn’t order the test. He suffered from these…

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Transparency in Specialty Pharmacy Supply Chains

By Ashish Patel | November 9, 2021

Navigating the world of Specialty Pharmacy is complex and riddled with information asymmetry.  But, it just got a lot easier. CareSet provides the experience and unblocked data to connect your new medication with the Specialty Pharmacies and prescribing physicians you need to reach your target patient populations. Characterizing the industry, the co-founder and former president…

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Unblocking Part D, MarketView 

By Ashish Patel | October 19, 2021

In specialty pharmacies, some medications may have partially blocked data. Manufacturers, payers, and specialty pharmacies can elect to block this data. When they do, it’s no longer visible to their allied and competitive healthcare stakeholders, like yourself.  CareSet’s Part D Targeting product provides brand teams clarity using Medicare’s unblocked claims data. This allows us to…

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Do doctors force their patients to use fax? A CareSet Journal FOIA Whitepaper

By Alma Trotter | August 18, 2021

Introduction Do patients benefit from the money that the U.S. Government has spent on the interoperability of clinical systems? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) believes that the purpose of the $34 billion dollar Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (aka “Meaningful Use”), is to provide patients with access to their medical records…

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Updated HOP Teaming Dataset Released During PMSA 2021

By Ashish Patel | June 18, 2021

The HOP Teaming Dataset from CareSet offers the most detailed and up-to-date picture of the patient-sharing relationships found between all U.S. Medicare providers HOUSTON – CareSet released the updated HOP Teaming Dataset during the Pharmaceutical Management Science Association (PMSA) 2021 Annual Conference. The release is a game-changing dataset that offers the most detailed and up-to-date…

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CareSet gets accelerated access to Medicare data to perform COVID data analysis

By Ashish Patel | June 11, 2021

CareSet is proud to announce that we are now the FIRST (that we know of) company with access to fee-for-service claims data (Part A, B & D), refreshed monthly, and with an industry best 2-week lag.  CareSet is using this data to perform analysis of the ongoing COVID pandemic, and how it impacts Medicare patients…

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Transparency victories regarding facility-level COVID data

By Fred Trotter | May 21, 2021

HHS has recently released data about vaccinated personnel at different hospitals. They have also released a new “master key” that helps to identify how hospitals are being enumerated as part of the COVID reporting system. Both of these new data resources have been made public as part of the collaboration that CareSet and other data…

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