Medicaid program & claims data unified across 12+ state agency feeds for policy insights

$180K
engineering cost avoided per year
75%
faster reporting
Industry
Healthcare
Country
USA
Customer overview

A healthcare policy organization working across state systems

Center for Health Care Strategies works at the intersection of policy and care delivery, partnering with Medicaid programs across multiple states to improve outcomes at scale. Their teams rely on a constant flow of claims, program, and operational data to guide decisions, where timing and accuracy directly impact the populations they serve. 
Challenges

Fragmented data slowed decisions & increased dependency on engineering

The core issue was not a lack of data, but the absence of a unified, reliable foundation. Data lived across disconnected state systems, making even basic reporting slow and resource-intensive. This created a bottleneck where policy teams waited for data instead of acting on it.

  • Medicaid data spread across 12+ state agency feeds
  • Inconsistent schemas across sources required manual standardization
  • Reporting cycles took days or weeks due to data preparation
  • Heavy reliance on engineering for every new request
  • Compliance requirements added complexity to data access & usage
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What changed with LakeStack

One governed foundation replaced manual data workflows

LakeStack unified all state agency feeds into a single, governed data layer, eliminating the need for custom pipelines and manual reconciliation. Data became consistently structured, continuously updated, and immediately usable for analytics.

Data unified in under 3 weeks
Unified 12+ state data sources

Consolidating all Medicaid and claims data into one foundation eliminated cross-source reconciliation, reducing reporting time by 75%.

$180K annual cost avoided
No custom ETL pipelines

Pre-engineered ingestion and transformation removed the need for ongoing pipeline development and maintenance.

Reporting in hours, not days
Automated schema mapping 

Standardized data structures ensured reports could be generated in under 4 hours instead of taking days.

Zero compliance delays
Governance from day one

Built-in HIPAA and SOC-aligned controls meant data was usable immediately, without additional approval cycles.

No manual exports or rework
Single source of truth

Policy teams accessed consistent, trusted data directly, eliminating manual intervention.

“Policy teams now get answers in hours, not weeks. Data readiness changed how we serve Medicaid.”
CTO, Center for Health Care Strategies