Population Health

Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
Community Checkup: Improving Health Care in Washington State A recent Washington Health Alliance report examined the cost of healthcare through an equity lens, and found that where people live in the state has a... State: Washington	Consumers, Employers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Reflux and Barrett's esophagus after sleeve gastrectomy: analysis of a statewide database In this large statewide database, rates of esophagogastroduodenoscopy remained low after SG, but the incidence of a new postoperative esophagitis or B...	Consumers, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial	Quality, Utilization
Massachusetts Health Care Coverage: Enrollment Trends The July 2015 edition of the Massachusetts Health Care Coverage: Enrollment Trends, offers new insights into changes in health insurance coverage thro... State: Massachusetts	Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
Hospital Variation in Health Care Utilization by Children with Medical Complexity The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice completed this follow-on study to its 2013 Dartmouth Atlas of Children’s Health Care... State: Vermont	Consumers, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Vermont’s Community-Oriented All-Payer Medical Home Model Reduces Expenditures and Utilization While Delivering High-Quality Care This study was published in the national journal "Population Health Management" and evaluates the Vermont Blueprint for Health’s overall pro... State: Vermont	Consumers, Health Reform, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Vermont’s Community-Oriented All-Payer Medical Home Model Reduces Expenditures and Utilization While Delivering High-Quality Care Patient-centered medical home programs using different design and implementation strategies are being tested across the United States, and the impact ... State: Vermont	Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Prescription Use among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Northern New England: Intensity and Small Area Variation This report measures the intensity of prescription use and regional variation of psychotropic and two non-psychotropic drugs among children with autis... State: Maine	Consumers, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, 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 Medicare Chronic Conditions Report The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement analyzed chronic conditions in Medicare beneficiaries within the 75 Arkansas counties. Using data from the ... State: Arkansas	Health Reform, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Medicare	Cost, Utilization
Arkansas Medicare HbA1c Utilization Report The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement analyzed type II diabetes among Arkansas Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and over within the 75 Arkans... State: Arkansas	Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Medicare	Quality, Utilization

Population Health

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