Producing comparable cost and quality results from all-payer claims databases.

Objectives: To describe how all-payer claims databases (APCDs) can be used for multistate analysis, evaluating the feasibility of overcoming the common barrier of a lack of standardization across data sets to produce comparable cost and quality results for 4 states. This study is part of a larger project to better understand the cost and quality of healthcare services across delivery organizations.

Study Design: Descriptive account of the process followed to produce healthcare quality and cost measures across and within 4 regional APCDs.