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To estimate the cost of smoking to Medicaid, ACHI analyzed data from the Arkansas All-Payer Claims Database to determine the amounts of claims paid by... Learn More

This Data Byte analyzes payment information from the CO APCD focused on how much commercial health insurance payers and patients pay for the Evaluatio... Learn More

The Washington HealthCareCompare website is driven by Washington APCD data in an effort to provide information to consumers to shop for medical servic... Learn More

The Emergency Department (ED) Mental Health-Related report provides stakeholders the opportunity to compare utilization and cost metrics for ED visits... Learn More

The Minnesota Department of Health, Health Economics Program, using 2012 and 2015 data from the MN APCD, produced a brief looking at the rates of opio... Learn More

This report examines case price variation for four common, clinically uncomplicated inpatient surgeries. This is the second in a series of reports foc... Learn More

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... Learn More

The WA-APCD health measures dashboards offer publicly available data reports which include a comparison of statewide and Accountable Communities of He... Learn More

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... Learn More

Use of telehealth services was rising before the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic. From January 2018 to February 2020, telehealth utilization v... Learn More

The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC), using data from the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) updated the Telehealth Service... Learn More

This study determined the rates of long-term opioid prescription-filling behavior after common orthopaedic surgical procedures in patients who were no... Learn More

Washington State Office of Financial Management staff used the WA-APCD to run Pharmacy Quality Alliance Opioid Prescribing Measures for 2014-2018. Learn More

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, ... Learn More

The Nurse Midwife Payment Evaluation data set provides payment comparisons for common procedures provided by Nurse Midwives, OB/GYNs, Primary Care Pro... Learn More

The Utah Department of Health, Office of Health Care Statistics (OHCS) produced this report at the request and under the direction of the Transparency... Learn More

This is the first broad-based study that reports prices paid by private health plans to hospitals identified by name and to groups of hospitals under ... Learn More

This report describes variation in blood pressure medication adherence among Minnesotans and provides strategies to improve adherence. Learn More

Colorado's State Innovation Model (SIM) seeks to measure and improve care for Coloradans living with chronic asthma. Relying on Colorado all-paye... Learn More

The Center For Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) analyzed hypertension in adults across the nation, with a special focus on those in Colorado. Th... Learn More