CHIA ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF MA APCD CY 2021 RELEASE

DATE: December 20, 2022

The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) has announced the availability of the most recent Massachusetts All-Payer Claims Database (MA APCD).

The MA APCD Calendar Year (CY) 2021 release features data for January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2021, with claims run-out through June 30, 2022. The MA APCD contains data collected from private and public payers of eligible health care claims for Massachusetts residents. The release contains eight file types, including medical, pharmacy, and dental claims with associated membership, provider, product, and benefit plan data.  

Highlights of MA APCD for CY 2021 include:

• Member Eligibility data submissions for December 2017, December 2018, December 2019, December 2020, December 2021, and June 2022 submissions.
  
  

• Also included in this release is a subset of MassHealth Enhanced Eligibility (MHEE LDS) data available to all approved recipients of MassHealth data. The MHEE LDS data provides a view of a member on any given day.
  
  

• Medical, Dental and Pharmacy claims incurred between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2021, as paid by June 30, 2022. 

Please visit CHIA's website to apply for MA APCD data. Interested parties can also sign up to receive updates to receive updates about future APCD and Case Mix releases as well as track the status of current applications at https://www.chiamass.gov/status-of-data-requests/.