Department of Finance & Administration
Mark Emkes, Commissioner

The Division of Health Planning uses health data to inform the state health plan and to advise legislators and policymakers. Some reports serve specialized audiences such as participants in the Certificate of Need process or within the departments of state government. Future reports will be of interest to general public. For health statistics available to the public from other organizations, see the Health Planning Links page.

Health Planning only analyses data at the statistical population level (by county or region for example), never at the individual level. An individual's personal health information cannot be accessed through Health Planning's Data Warehouse.

Public Chapter 611 of the Acts of 2009 requires all group health plans and health insurance issuers to provide claims data for Tennessee residents to the Tennessee Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance or a designated entity. The Division of Health Planning is assisting the Department of Commerce and Insurance in implementing the law. Tennessee, like several other states, is creating an all payer claims database, which may be used by the state of Tennessee for the following purposes:

a. Improving the accessibility, adequacy, and affordability of patient healthcare and healthcare coverage
b. Identifying health and healthcare needs and informing health and healthcare policy
c. Determining the capacity and distribution of existing healthcare resources
d. Evaluating the effectiveness of intervention programs on improving patient outcomes
e. Reviewing costs among various treatment settings, providers, and approaches
f. Providing publicly available information on healthcare providers’ quality of care

Tennessee's All Payer Claims Database will not include personally identifying information such as subscriber names and social security numbers. The data within the Tennessee all payer claims database will be available only to authorized persons working for the state of Tennessee and its designated entities. The data will neither be released to the public nor deemed a public record. Additionally, the database will be used for analyzing and public reporting at the statistical population level, not the individual level.

Information for insurance companies on submitting claims data is here: www.onpointcdm.com.

The Tennessee law that created the All Payer Claims Database is available by clicking here, and the rules for data collection are available here.

The Tennessee Health Information Committee guides the development of Tennessee's All Payer Claims Database. The current members of the Tennessee Health Information Committee are:

Mark A. Emkes, (or designee), Chair - Commissioner of Finance and Administration

Virginia Trotter Betts – Commissioner of Mental Health and Developmental Disability

E. Douglas Varney (or designee) – Commissioner of Mental Health

Susan Cooper (or designee) – Interim Commissioner of Health

*Nick Coussoule – Sr. Vice President and Chief Information & Strategic Technology

Micah Cost – Director of Professional Affairs, Tennessee Pharmacists Association

Darin Gordon (or designee) – Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of TennCare

Barbara Houchin – Executive Director of Strategic Planning, Saint Thomas Health

Ranyan Lu – Director of Research, Clinical Analytics, UnitedHealthcare

*Joseph E. "Pete" Kelley – Physician, Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Tennessee College of Medicine

Michael Minch – Physician

Julie Mix McPeak (or designee) – Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance

Jeff Ockerman – Director, Division of Health Planning

Will Rice – Executive Director, Governor’s office of e-Health

*Harold Runsvold – Health Care Consumers Representative

William G. Southwick – President and CEO, HealthMark Partners, Inc.

Mary E. Taylor – Head of Regulatory Compliance, Aetna

*Cristie Upshaw Travis – CEO, Memphis Business Group on Health

*Mary Layne Van Cleave – Executive Vice President/COO, Tennessee Hospital Association

Larry Van Horn - Associate Professor of Health Care Management Faculty Director, Health Care Programs (representing self-insured businesses)

* Denotes members serving two-year terms; all others serve an initial one-year term (state officials serve ex officio)

Click below for minutes of the meetings of the Tennessee Health Information Committee:

September 15, 2009       January 21, 2010      February 25, 2010        June 29, 2010