Department: Purchasing
Department Head/Elected Official: DeWight Dopslauf
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Interlocal Agreement
Project ID (if applicable): N/A
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
MWDBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A
MWDBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request that the County Judge execute an interlocal agreement with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the amount of $165,687 for prevalence of specific chronic illnesses identified by the Office of Epidemiology Surveillance and Emerging Disease for Public Health Services for the period of June 25, 2024 - September 30, 2024 with one (1) one-year renewal option.
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Background and Discussion:
The Center for Health Care Data (CHCD) at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health was appointed the administrator of the Texas All Payor Claims Database (TX-APCD) in 2021 by the Texas legislature. The stated purpose of the TX-APCD is to increase transparency of health care costs, utilization, and access and to improve the affordability, availability, and quality of health care in Texas. Due to this designation, the CHCD is permitted to use Texas Medicaid data for TX-APCD approved uses from 2019 on. Additionally, the CHCD was granted the status of a state agency by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to receive Texas Medicare Fee for Service data also to use under the terms of the TX-APCD legislation. The complete TX- APCD is estimated to contain claims and demographic data on over 80% of insured persons in the state and is comprised of adjudicated claims from January 1, 2019 to the present. Since the TX-APCD is still under development, the CHCD is the only entity with the ability to access the data at this time.
For this project, the CHCD wi...
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