Maine Health Data Organization's HealthCost
Welcome to the homepage of the Maine HealthCost website.
This website has been developed by the Maine Health Data
Organization in accordance with its mandate to produce reports related
to health care facility and practitioner payments for services rendered
to Maine residents. Select from the below choices to get started or you
can read the methodology (
link)
to learn how the reports are generated.
Data Sources
The data used to produce reports has been provided by various sources. Below is a list of the source and/or agreement:
- Commercial claims data provided by payers required to submit to the MHDO under
the terms and conditions of CMR 90-590 Chapter 243: Uniform Reporting System for Health
Care Claims Data Sets
- Medicare claims data provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through CMS/MHDO Data Use Agreement
#14392: Incorporation of Medicare Patient Level Data for Maine Residents into the
Maine Health Data Organization Health Care Claims Database
- MaineCare (Medicaid) claims data provided by the Office of MaineCare Services,
ME Department of Health and Human Services, through the OMS/MHDO July 21, 2008
MaineCare Memorandum of Agreement
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