Robin Gelburd, JD
As the founding President of FAIR Health, Robin Gelburd, JD, built the organization into a trusted national leader in health care cost transparency, data analytics and benchmarks, utilizing its vast collection of 34 billion private health care claim records that grows at a rate of over 2 billion claim records a year—the largest such repository in the country. Certified by CMS as a national Qualified Entity, FAIR Health also receives data representing the experience of all individuals enrolled in traditional Medicare Parts A, B and D. Robin is a nationally recognized expert and conference speaker on health care policy and health literacy and transparency. She has overseen FAIR Health research publications on many health care topics, including COVID-19, the opioid crisis and Lyme disease, and created and supervises FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, an online resource on telehealth.
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Contributor: Telehealth Claim Lines Increased 4132% Nationally From June 2019 to June 2020
Telehealth claim lines increased 4132% nationally from June 2019 to June 2020, rising from 0.16% of medical claim lines in June 2019 to 6.85% in June 2020, according to new data from FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
FAIR Health Analysis: COVID-19 Hits Health System Revenues Harder in Northeast
By mid-March, large hospitals in the Northeast experienced a 26% decline in average per-facility revenues based on estimated in-network amounts as compared to the same period in 2019. Nationwide, the decrease in revenue for large hospitals was 16%
Wide Variation Across Nation in Opioid Abuse and Dependence Treatment
FAIR Health recently analyzed data from its database of more than 26 billion privately billed healthcare claim records dating back to 2002. The report also identified the top 10 procedure codes for specific treatments and services associated with opioid abuse and dependence diagnoses by utilization and aggregate cost in each US Census region.
