Benchmarks
DxCG uses MarketScan® databases to develop its commercial predictive models and provide benchmarks against which to analyze performance. MarketScan databases reflect the real world of privately insured health care delivery. They include payment and utilization data across all care settings including, inpatient, outpatient, outpatient prescription drug, and carve-out providers.
MarketScan databases provide the following benefits to users of DxCG's predictive models:
- Large representative dataset delivers complete inpatient, outpatient, pharmacy, and enrollment data for approximately 63 million individuals. The size and content of these data enable predictions appropriate for all commercial populations.
- Standardized data elements and definitions, which ensures "apples to apples" comparisons between groups.
- Longitudinal tracking of individuals, which provides the ability to follow people over multiple years, including seniors as they phase into Medicare.
- Comprehensive data from nearly 100 health plans representing a variety of product lines, including PPO, point-of-service, HMO, and traditional indemnity plans.
- Representation by a wide range of industries - e.g., manufacturing, financial, insurance, real estate.
- Widely respected data which have been the source of more than 100 published studies in the past five years.
MarketScan® is a registered trademark of The MEDSTAT Group, Inc.