Arkansas

Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
The Cost of Adolescent Obesity: A Longitudinal Cohort Study From Ages 15 to 30 This longitudinal study found that obesity during adolescence is associated with substantially higher healthcare spending and poorer health outcomes a... State: Arkansas	Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Utilization
Scope and characteristics of patients filling medications through specialty pharmacies by ownership type This study examined who uses specialty pharmacies and found that patients filling medications through these pharmacies tend to be older, have greater ... State: Arkansas	Consumers, Population Health, Providers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
Rural–Urban Differences in Use of Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support in Arkansas, 2015–2019 This study found that adults with diabetes living in rural areas were less likely to participate in Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DS... State: Arkansas	Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Poverty and Mortality Risk in Patients With Colorectal Cancer This study found that colorectal cancer patients living in areas of persistent poverty had a significantly higher risk of death than those living in o... State: Arkansas	Population Health, Researchers	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 links Arkansas APCD and PDMP data to assess prescribed opioid exposure during pregnancy, demonstrating that combining both data source... State: Arkansas	Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
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

Arkansas

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