--- title: "Ursa Health Population Health Foundations Module Release Notes" slug: "ursa-health-population-health-foundations-module-release-notes" updated: 2026-08-19T22:39:29Z published: 2026-08-19T22:39:29Z canonical: "docs.ursahealth.com/ursa-health-population-health-foundations-module-release-notes" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ursahealth.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ursa Health Population Health Foundations Module Release Notes ### v1.29 Aaron Mock released this Jul 17, 2026 Simplifying URSA-PHF-039 (high ED utilizers) to a normal form measure. Cosmetic changes to SNF measures (reduced published fields by Product team). --- ### v1.28 Andy Hackbarth released this Jul 2, 2026 Removed references in some measures to (orphaned) CMS Place of Service Code / Description fields, which have recently been removed from several URSA-CORE encounter-level objects (as misleading / confusing). --- ### v1.27 Aaron Mock released this May 8, 2026 adding URSA-PHF-036c and URSA-PHF-021b --- ### v1.26 Andy Hackbarth released this Apr 30, 2026 Updated URSA-PHF-001b to use new Data Mart for Patient-Months with Active Plan Membership in denominator. --- ### v1.25 Andy Hackbarth released this Apr 20, 2026 Updated measures to handle upstream removal of CMS Place of Service fields (due to it being misleading / confusing) from the Hospital Inpatient Admission Encounters object. --- ### v1.24 Andy Hackbarth released this Mar 17, 2026 Changes downstream of field changes associated with new grouper logic. --- ### v1.23 Aaron Mock released this Mar 11, 2026 Incorporated new Ursa Core encounter and new claim groupers into the PHF measures. --- ### v1.22 Andy Hackbarth released this Dec 22, 2025 Handling upstream field name correction in the URSA-CORE encounter objects (MS-DRG MDC Code Description to MS-DRG MDC Description) --- ### v1.21 Aaron Mock released this Oct 28, 2025 Added restriction to URSA-PHF-022 (EDK) to exclude ED visits that result in an observation stay. Similar treatment applied to the URSA-PHF-024 (observation stays per 1k member years) to exclude observation stays that resulted in an inpatient admission. --- ### v1.20 Aaron Mock released this Aug 20, 2025 Additional charts added to the PHF Basics Report showing financials within various encounter types. --- ### v1.19 Aaron Mock released this Aug 20, 2025 Added 3 measures to the Hospital Utilization Metrics report; 1) URSA-PHF-034: 30-Day Admission After ED Discharge, 2) URSA-PHF-035: Post-ED Primary Care Visit within 7 Days, 3) URSA-PHF-035B: Post-ED Primary Care Visit within 14 Days --- ### v1.18 Aaron Mock released this Aug 7, 2025 Addition of two new measures for Post-ED Primary Care Visit within 7 Days (URSA-PHF-035) and 14 days (URSA-PHF-035b). --- ### v1.17 Liz Costa released this Aug 1, 2025 adding localized timeline to all measures --- ### v1.16 Aaron Mock released this Jan 10, 2025 Moving frequently used AHDF to measure level to avoid users mistakenly removing. Updated boards in two reports: (1) Clinician & Primary Care Visit Metrics and (2) Hospital Utilization Metrics reports --- ### v1.15 Aaron Mock released this Dec 18, 2024 Alignment of measure IDs to appropriate ranges: URSA-PHF-034 is now URSA-PHF-060, URSA-PHF-035 is now URSA-PHF-061. --- ### v1.14 Aaron Mock released this Sep 9, 2024 Submitting updates to boards that make use of new chart types and resolve broken charts caused by changes in database handling of column names. --- ### v1.13 Aaron Mock released this Jul 30, 2024 submitting update to ursa-phf-902 --- ### v1.12 Aaron Mock released this Jul 18, 2024 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. --- ### v1.11 Aaron Mock released this Jun 26, 2024 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 --- ### v1.10 Aaron Mock released this May 16, 2024 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. --- ### v1.9 Aaron Mock released this May 1, 2024 Updates to the surgical encounter metrics to reduce the number of non-critical or redundant fields. --- ### v1.8 Aaron Mock released this Apr 18, 2024 Addition of a new object "Plan Claim Payment Document Aggregator" designed to support creation of client-specific claim categories off of Ursa Core concepts. --- ### v1.7 Aaron Mock released this Apr 17, 2024 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. --- ### v1.6 Aaron Mock released this Mar 13, 2024 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. --- ### v1.5 Andy Hackbarth released this Mar 7, 2024 More remapping fields affected by the de-truncation of long column names. --- ### v1.4 Aaron Mock released this Mar 5, 2024 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. --- ### v1.3 Aaron Mock released this Feb 20, 2024 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. --- ### v1.2 Aaron Mock released this Jan 31, 2024 A new SNF Utilization report has been added which includes several new financial and length of stay measures related to skilled nursing facility encounters. --- ### v1.1 Aaron Mock released this Jan 23, 2024 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. --- ### v1.0 Aaron Mock released this Sep 12, 2023 Initial v1.0 release of module. ---