News for Immediate Release
August 22, 2024
Harrisburg – PHC4 has produced new County-Level Utilization and Condition-Specific Reports using the most recent available data.
County-Level Utilization Reports are updated every quarter and show the overall total number of inpatient hospitalizations and ambulatory/outpatient cases for Pennsylvania residents. These results are displayed by patient age, sex, and payer. The County-Level Utilization Reports reflect data from Q4 of 2023.
County-Level Condition-Specific Reports focus on several high interest conditions displaying county-specific rates of hospitalization for Pennsylvania residents. This information reflects data from the four-quarter period beginning Jan 1, 2023 through Dec 31, 2023. The analysis within County-Level Condition-Specific Reports is limited to Pennsylvania general acute care hospitals.
“These reports shed light on critical health care components and offer valuable insights into public health in the Commonwealth, specifically at the county level,” said Barry D. Buckingham, PHC4’s Executive Director. Buckingham went on to say that PHC4’s goals include providing fact-based reporting in support of those charged with prioritizing health care resources effectively, which is one of the key objectives when producing these timely reports and displaying the data at a county level.
PHC4 is an independent council formed under Pennsylvania statute (Act 89 of 1986, as amended by Act 15 of 2020) in order to address rapidly growing health care costs. PHC4 continues to produce comparative information about the most efficient and effective health care to individual consumers and group purchasers of health services. In addition, PHC4 produces information used to identify opportunities to contain costs and improve the quality of care delivered.
For more information, visit phc4.org or view the reports here.
Media contact:
Barry D. Buckingham
Executive Director, PHC4
