2021 COLORADO ALL PAYER CLAIMS DATABASE ANNUAL REPORT understand what is in the CO APCD, we released the CO APCD Insights Dashboard, an interactive breakdown of the contents of the database, along with an accompanying data set, as well as smaller analyses of specialized data like race/ethnicity, dental, vision, and behavioral health/substance use disorders for download. Updates to the Telehealth Services Analysis report continued to inform the work of partners striving to address COVID and inspired similar reports in other states seeking to understand drastic changes taking place in care delivery.
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Overall, use of telehealth in 2020 was still significantly elevated compared to 2019. Use of telehealth services peaked in April 2020, slowly declined through September and rose again slightly through January. Mental health conditions remain the most frequent diagnosis for telehealth services and increased from approximately 35% in 2019 to a little over 50% of all visits in 2020. Behavioral Health Providers supplied the most telehealth services (38%) in 2020, followed by Primary Care Providers (22%), Federally Qualified Health Centers/Rural Health Clinics (5%) and Home Health (5%) providers.
A full list of CIVHC public releases in FY 2020-2021 can be found in Appendix B. During FY 2020-2021 the public reporting team began incorporating downloadable data sets with as many interactive public releases as possible, enabling partners to perform their own analyses with the de-identified and aggregated CO APCD information.
DIVERSITY OF CO APCD DATA USERS AND ANALYTICS Stakeholders who received non-public CO APCD data during FY 2020-2021 span the spectrum from digital health innovators to traditional researchers, from major health plans to hospitals and providers in rural and urban areas of the state. Though government agencies receive a 9
