Case Studies

Rheumatologist and Assistant Professor, Bella Mehta, MBBS, MS, MD, Division of Rheumatology at Hospital for Special Surgery, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine explored whether social determinants of health had an impact on surgical outcomes after total hip arthroplasty. Dr. Mehta utilized statewide data from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) and modern, interpretable machine learning methods for this study entitled, Comparing Community-Level Social Determinants of Health With Patient Race in Total Hip Arthroplasty Outcomes.

Christy Duré, MHA, MPA, is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Health Management and Policy at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. Over her career, Ms. Duré has taught courses in public policy, public health, and healthcare administration. Ms. Duré has used data from the Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council (PHC4) in the classroom to teach students financial concepts in healthcare.

Professor Lindsay Sabik, PhD, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, utilized Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) inpatient discharge and ambulatory/outpatient procedure data linked to records from the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Pennsylvania Cancer Registry for a research study entitled, “Impacts of Recent Payment, Coverage, and Systems Changes on Access to and Quality of Cancer Care.”