Consumers

Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
Treatment of opioid use disorder in pregnancy among individuals with and without co-occurring stimulant use disorder: A retrospective cohort study This case study uses Utah APCD data to compare treatment patterns among pregnant individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) who also had a co-occurrin... State: Utah	Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
An Examination of Trends in Low-Value Opioid Prescribing for Acute Low Back Pain in Rural vs. Non-Rural Virginia This case study uses Virginia APCD data to examine low-value opioid prescribing for acute low back pain among over 850,000 insured residents from 2019... State: Virginia	Consumers, Health Reform, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Insurance gaps at age-19 and age-26 health insurance eligibility thresholds by childhood-onset condition severity, Colorado 2014-2018 This case study examines health insurance coverage gaps among Colorado young adults at two age-based cutoffs — losing Medicaid at 19 and aging off par... State: Colorado	Consumers, Employers, Providers	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
Predictors of telehealth use after the Minnesota Telehealth Act: analysis using the Minnesota All Payer Claims Database This article examines telehealth use among commercially insured and Medicare Advantage patients in Minnesota using 2021 and 2022 data from the Minneso... State: Minnesota	Consumers, Population Health	Commercial, Medicare	Utilization
State Efforts To Monitor Outpatient Facility Fees Colorado, Maine, Connecticut, and Washington—have collected and analyzed data on outpatient facility fee billing within their borders. This growing in... State: Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Washington	Consumers, Providers, Researchers	Commercial	Cost
Recommendations to Expand Access to and Use of the Minnesota All Payer Claims Database: Final Report With renewed interest in health care reform and a focus on data-driven decision-making across stakeholders and industries, many have focused on contai... State: Minnesota	Consumers, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
Health Care Spending, Prices, and Utilization in Minnesota: 2018 to 2022 This issue brief relies upon data from the Minnesota All Payer Claims Database (MN APCD) to examine trends in per-person health care spending, prices,... State: Minnesota	Consumers, Employers, Health Reform	Commercial	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Z-Coding for Social Contributors to Health in Colorado Federally Qualified Health Centers This study looked at the prevalence of social contributor Z codes for patients receiving services through Colorado’s Federally Qualified Health Center... State: Colorado	Consumers	Commercial, Medicaid	Cost, Quality, Utilization

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