Case Studies

Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
All-Payer Total Cost of Care Interactive Visualization All-Payer Total Cost of Care Interactive Visualization. Requires Tableau log-in. State: Vermont	Employers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost
Arkansas Infographic: Smoking-Attributable Costs to Medicaid 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… State: Arkansas	Consumers, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost
DataByte: Opioid and Other Pain Medication Use in Utah This DataByte looks at both the percentage of opioid prescriptions and length of days supplied. The data for these results comes from the Utah All… State: Utah	Consumers, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Colorado Data Byte: Emergency Department Facility Price Data This Data Byte analyzes payment information from the CO APCD focused on how much commercial health insurance payers and patients pay for the… State: Colorado	Consumers, Insurance Department, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Cost
Washington HealthCareCompare Consumer Transparency Website The Washington HealthCareCompare website is driven by Washington APCD data in an effort to provide information to consumers to shop for medical… State: Washington	Consumers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality
Postpartum Care in Oregon in 2017 Using information from the Oregon Data Collaborative, Comagine Health investigated how many insured Oregonians were accessing crucial postpartum… State: Oregon	Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
Emergency Department Use for Mental Health Reasons in Colorado The Emergency Department (ED) Mental Health-Related report provides stakeholders the opportunity to compare utilization and cost metrics for ED… State: Colorado	Consumers, Employers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Utilization
From Claims to Clarity: Deriving Actionable Healthcare Cost Benchmarks from Aggregated Commercial Claims Data The study used a standard measure of costs from HealthPartners of Minnesota and required Hilltop to analyze 2014 data from Maryland’s all payer… State: Colorado	Health Reform, Population Health	Commercial	Cost
Current Uses of the MN APCD This resource details all use cases produced using Minnesota claims as of October 2017. State: Minnesota	Employers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Touchpoints - Opportunities to predict and prevent opioid overdose: A cohort study This study uses data from the Massachusetts APCD. Researchers found found eight touchpoints which were associated with increased risk of fatal opioid… State: Massachusetts	Health Reform, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Utilization
Geographic Variation in Hypertension in Minnesota: 2014 This report provides a state and local overview of the prevalence of hypertension in Minnesota, including the first estimates of hypertension… State: Minnesota	Medicaid, Population Health	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
Commercial Case Price Variation among High-Volume Inpatient Treatments in Minnesota Hospitals, July 2014 - June 2015 This report examines case price variation among four common, clinically uncomplicated inpatient treatments in orthopedic and obstetric care. This is… State: Minnesota	Consumers, Health Reform, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Cost
Patterns of Opioid Prescribing in Minnesota: 2012 and 2015 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… State: Minnesota	Consumers, Employers, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
Commercial Case Price Variation among High-Volume Inpatient Treatments in Minnesota Hospitals (Part 2): July 2014 - June 2015 This report examines case price variation for four common, clinically uncomplicated inpatient surgeries. This is the second in a series of reports… State: Minnesota	Consumers, Health Reform, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost
Evaluation of the Minnesota Accountable Health Model Minnesota's State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) evaluated the success of the State Innovation Model (SIM) initiative from 2015-… State: Minnesota	Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Potentially Preventable Health Care Events in Minnesota The Minnesota Department of Health used Minnesota claims data from 2012 to analyze administrative healthcare transactions for 4.3 million privately… State: Minnesota	Employers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Pharmaceutical Spending and Use in Minnesota: 2009-2013 The Minnesota Department of Health utilized claims data from the Minnesota All-Payer Claims Database (MNAPCD) to analyze pharmaceutical spending and… State: Minnesota	Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality, Utilization
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… 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… State: Minnesota	Consumers, Health Reform, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Utilization
Chronic Pain Procedures in Minnesota, 2010-2012, Minnesota Department of Health Report to the Minnesota Legislature - 2014 The Minnesota Department of Health released an analysis of chronic pain management services based on data from the state's APCD. This report is… State: Minnesota	Population Health	Commercial	Cost, Utilization

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