Office of Data Dissemination and Transparency

Office of Data Dissemination and Transparency

The Office of Data Dissemination and Transparency is a part of the Florida Center for Health Information and Transparency (Florida Center) and is responsible for the following operations:

Managing the Agency's Transparency Websites

• Florida Health Finder, provides consumers information about health care services, and quality of care for pharmaceuticals, physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory surgery centers, and health plans. The website also provides a list of licensed health care facilities, and a multimedia encyclopedia that allows users to look up a condition or procedure and find definitions, symptoms, tests, surgeries, nutrition and much more. Consumer brochures and other publications can be viewed at https://quality.healthfinder.fl.gov/report-guides 

• Florida Health Price Finder, provides consumers with the ability to research and compare health care costs in Florida at the national, state, and local levels. Supported by a database of more than 15 million lines of insurance claim data sourced directly from Florida insurers.  The website displays costs as Care Bundles representing the typical set of services a patient receives as part of treatment for a specific medical condition presented in logical steps that may include one or more procedures and tests. The 291 care bundles currently available on Florida Health Price Finder account for 90% of consumer searches on national pricing websites. To view the Final Claims Data Collection Rule, see the following: 
  • 59E-9.010 Claims Data Collection Final Rule [ 203.3 kB ]
  • Florida Claims Data Submission Guide [ 1.9 MB ]

• MyFloridaRX, provides consumers with price information for the 300 most commonly used prescription drugs to assist with shopping for the lowest retail prices on prescription drugs in their area. The prices are the “usual and customary prices,” also known as retail prices, reported monthly by pharmacies. 

Coordinating and Facilitating Advisory Panel Meetings

The Pediatric Cardiac Technical Advisory Panel, charged to develop procedures and standards for measuring outcomes of pediatric cardiac catheterization and surgery programs; and to make recommendations to the Agency for rules that implement those standards.

Disseminating Data and Providing Technical Assistance to Data Users

• Data users can request specialized reports for specific data needs that involve non-confidential data, special ad-hoc queries, and other reports.
• To view information about the data layouts/dictionary, or to order data visit:  https://quality.healthfinder.fl.gov/Researchers/Order-Data/
• The main sources of data requested are:
  • Hospital Patient Data
  • Ambulatory Surgery Center Patient Data
  • Emergency Department Patient Data (starting in 2005)
  • Hospital Financial Data

For information regarding custom data requests or to order data please contact:

Agency for Health Care Administration,
Florida Center for Health Information and Transparency,
Office of Data Dissemination and Transparency,
2727 Mahan Drive, MS 16
Tallahassee, FL 32308
Ph: (850) 412-3772
[email protected]