Release Notes

Submitting updates to boards that make use of new chart types and resolve broken charts caused by changes in database handling of column names.

submitting update to ursa-phf-902

Updates to the hospital utilization report; addition of two new observation stay metrics and updates to the inpatient LOS board which analyzes cases where LOS is outside expected ranges.

Two new measures added to support analytics around hospital observation stay utilization: (1) URSA-PHF-060: Observation Discharge 60-Day Return to Inpatient, (2) URSA-PHF-061: Observation Discharge 60-Day IP Plan Spending

Updates to the Readmission Metrics report and several of the underlying measures (URSA-PHF-030, URSA-PHF-030b, URSA-PHF-030c). Users will now be able to classify whether the readmission diagnosis is related to the principal discharge diagnosis of the index admission based on all 3 levels of the AHRQ CCS ICD10CM classification system based on the fields; (1) Is Readmission Diagnosis Match to Index AHRQ CCS Single Level, (2) Is Readmission Diagnosis Match to Index on AHRQ CCS Tier 1, (3) Is Readmission Diagnosis Match to Index on AHRQ CCS Tier 2.

Updates to the surgical encounter metrics to reduce the number of non-critical or redundant fields.

Addition of a new object "Plan Claim Payment Document Aggregator" designed to support creation of client-specific claim categories off of Ursa Core concepts.

Updates to pre-built boards to incorporate new chart types and (cosmetic) change to the name of the Top Down Comparison Charts for Payor Data to include the namespace token.

A new report has been added to facilitate "top down" validation exercises to compare Ursa generated active member counts, PMPM, and total plan spending against a payor provided report. This report includes three new PHF measures (901, 902, 903) which limit the number of published fields to allow them to be rerun quickly during validation of payor data integrations.

More remapping fields affected by the de-truncation of long column names.

Updates made across URSA-PHF measures to capture changes to the Ursa Core Patient Timelines Master which rebuilt some very long column names (in context of recent increase to column name max length for non-Postgres DBMS). This will not impact the fields as they're displayed to users through Analytics Portal.

Created a new board in the report "Clinician & Primary Care Visit Metrics" that breaks down services and spend during Oncology/Hematology specialist visits. This board is meant to be a template for users and the same methodology can be applied to analyze other specialties such as cardiology, rheumatology, etc.

A new SNF Utilization report has been added which includes several new financial and length of stay measures related to skilled nursing facility encounters.

Incorporated new fields from the latest URSA-CORE release into PHF Measures and updated boards in the PHF Basics report introducing users to these fields.

• Initial commit of URSA-PHF 1.0.