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SFHSS APCD dashboard shows heavy specialty drug spend and rising autism visits
Summary
Staff presented the All Payer Claims Database dashboard for 2017, highlighting that a small set of specialty drugs drive high costs (many tied to HIV), diabetes is a top expensive chronic condition, and autism diagnoses and visits rose notably year over year; presenter flagged data‑quality issues in Kaiser Medicare RX counts.
Marina Coleridge, enterprise systems and analytics manager, presented SFHSS’s All Payer Claims Database (APCD) express dashboard that summarizes cost, utilization and quality metrics for calendar year 2017.
Coleridge said city plan members remain the system’s costliest population and that specialty drugs are a major driver of prescription costs: 14 of the top 15 drugs by spend are specialty medications, and eight of those are used to treat HIV,…
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