Arkansas

Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
Inequitable Access to Risk-Appropriate Neonatal Care: Evidence from a Regionalized Perinatal System in Arkansas This case study analyzes a decade of birth data in Arkansas to evaluate whether newborns receive care at the appropriate level of neonatal facility. I... State: Arkansas	Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Quality, Utilization
Engagement and retention in HIV care in rural Southern U.S. using an All-Payer Claims Database This case study evaluates the HIV care continuum in Arkansas, finding that HIV testing, engagement, and retention in care are all below national avera... State: Arkansas	Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Curbing the Growing Fragmentation of Veterans’ Health Care This study quantifies a major shift in locus of VA critical care, a likely outcome of expanded non-VA health insurance coverage that was previously ca... State: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin	Consumers, Health Reform, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers	Medicaid	Utilization
Delay in breast cancer surgery: evaluating patient, healthcare access, and social vulnerability predictors This case study identified disparities in delay in breast cancer surgery persist across race, healthcare access, and community-level vulnerability. Th... State: Arkansas	Consumers, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Quality, Utilization
Novel approaches in linkage of data sources to explore the associations between purchase of opioid prescriptions during pregnancy and adverse neonatal outcomes This case study evaluated patterns of opioid purchases by payment source among pregnant women in Arkansas and examine their associations with adverse ... State: Arkansas	Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial	Quality
Pediatric Asthma Population Risk Stratification using k-Means Clustering Incorporating social determinants of health to identify distinct pediatric asthma patient groups can help stratify populations by their risk of advers... State: Arkansas	Researchers	Commercial	Quality
Profile of the Primary Care Physician Workforce in Arkansas "Healthcare provider shortages continue to be one of the most pressing challenges faced by healthcare organizations and communities seeking to en... State: Arkansas	Health Reform, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Quality
Naloxone Prescription in Response to the Opioid Epidemic In response to the opioid epidemic, policies to expand access to the overdose-reversal drug naloxone — e.g., allowing pharmacists to dispense naloxone... State: Arkansas	Consumers, Insurance Department, Population Health, Providers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Asthma Quality Measurement and Adverse Outcomes in Medicaid-Enrolled Children To determine the association between the asthma medication ratio (AMR) quality measure and adverse outcomes among Medicaid-enrolled children with asth... State: Arkansas	Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers	Medicaid	Utilization
Arkansas Medicare Provider Episode Report: Bilateral Cataract Removal with Lens Implant The Arkansas APCD analyzed data correlations between the mean episode costs stratified by surgeons and the episode volume of bilateral cataract remova... State: Arkansas	Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Medicare	Cost

Arkansas

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