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Terry Hill

Terry Hill published a policy brief in the CA Association of Long Term Care Medicine

Terry Hill, MD, who rejoined our UCSF Division of Geriatrics volunteer faculty last year, has published a policy brief, Leveraging the HCAI Healthcare Payments Database to Improve Nursing Home Value and Transparency in California. The database, which the WIP group has discussed twice, captures medical, pharmacy, and dental claims and encounters, including patient and provider information. The June 2023 release comprised 6,075,893,321 records from 2018 through 2021 for over 35,000,000 individuals.