Researchers

Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
Analysis of Low-Value Health Services in the Minnesota All Payer Claims Database The Minnesota Department of Health analyzed the overuse of unnecessary or low-value care throughout the state of Minnesota using data from the MN APCD... State: Minnesota	Consumers, Employers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Chronic Conditions in Minnesota: New Estimates of Prevalence, Cost and Geographic Variation for Insured Minnesotans, 2012 This report examines chronic disease prevalence and spending for Minnesota residents with health insurance in 2012, using Minnesota’s robust All Payer... State: Minnesota	Consumers, Health Reform, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Utilization
Washington APCD Health Measures Dashboards The WA-APCD health measures dashboards offer publicly available data reports which include a comparison of statewide and Accountable Communities of He... State: Washington	Consumers, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Massachusetts Commercial Prescription Drug Use and Spending, 2015-2017 This is the second study on prescription drug use and spending released from CHIA. For this analysis, CHIA used a subset of commercial pharmacy claims... State: Massachusetts	Consumers, Health Reform, Researchers	Commercial	Cost, Utilization
Small-Area Variation in the Care of Low-Risk Neonates in Massachusetts and Texas A research study that measures special care days (SCDs) (intermediate or intensive), length of stay, and readmission rates among low-risk neonates acr... State: Texas	Providers, Researchers	Commercial	Quality, Utilization
Medication-assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Rhode Island: Who Gets Treatment, and Does Treatment Improve Health Outcomes? The New England Public Policy Center at the Boston Fed recently released a report entitled “Medication-assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in R... State: Rhode Island	Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Quality, Utilization
New Long-Term Opioid Prescription-Filling Behavior Arising in the 15 Months After Orthopaedic Surgery in Virginia This study determined the rates of long-term opioid prescription-filling behavior after common orthopaedic surgical procedures in patients who were no... State: Virginia	Consumers, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Utilization
Small-Area Variation in the Care of Low-Risk Neonates in Massachusetts and Texas A research study that measures special care days (SCDs) (intermediate or intensive), length of stay, and readmission rates among low-risk neonates acr... State: Massachusetts, Texas	Providers, Researchers	Commercial	Quality, Utilization
Pharmacy Quality Alliance Opioid Prescribing Measurers in Washington State, 2014-18 Washington State Office of Financial Management staff used the WA-APCD to run Pharmacy Quality Alliance Opioid Prescribing Measures for 2014-2018. State: Washington	Consumers, Employers, Health Reform, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Colon Cancer Screening and Colonoscopy Billing This analysis helps to answer, of the people who have a fecal screener: 1. How many insured lives in Colorado have a colonoscopy within a year?, and, ... State: Colorado	Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Utilization

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