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Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
Low-Value and No-Value Care in Healthcare: A Narrative Review This narrative review explains what low-value care (healthcare that costs more than the benefit it provides) and no-value care (care with no clinical ... State: Virginia	Health Reform	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality
Exogenous Testosterone Is Associated with Lower Odds of Stroke in Young Men: An Exploratory Analysis of the Colorado Claims Database The abstract reports that establishing a stroke transition-of-care clinic — where patients are seen by neurology within two weeks after hospital disch... State: Colorado	Population Health	Commercial	Quality
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
Medicaid Accountable Care Model Designs and Maternal Health Measures In this study, both Medicaid ACO models were associated with improved outcomes, but with some differences between models, suggesting that states shoul... State: Massachusetts	Medicaid, Population Health	Medicaid	Utilization
Evaluation of colorectal cancer screening practices in Rhode Island, 2011–2021 This study examined colorectal cancer screening patterns in Rhode Island from 2011–2021. It found disparities in screening use based on sex, insurance... State: Rhode Island	Population Health, Providers	Commercial	Quality
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
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
Study of Telehealth Expansion and Payment Parity This report summarizes the findings from two years of research and stakeholder engagement led by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to address t... State: Minnesota	Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Quality, Utilization
A Snapshot of Sickle Cell Disease and Sickle Cell Trait in Minnesota A dashboard that explores the prevalence and demographic distribution of sickle cell patients in Minnesota. State: Minnesota	Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Quality, Utilization

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