Case Studies

Resource Category Carriers Purpose
Data Byte: In/Out of Network Costs
Median In and Out of Network Commercial Professional Fee Paid amounts for laparoscopic appendectomy, laparoscopic cholecystectomy and small intestine…
State: Colorado
 Insurance Department, Population Health, Researchers Commercial Cost
CO APCD Data Byte: Firearm Injury Trends and Costs in Colorado
This Data Byte evaluates the impact of firearm injuries in Colorado in terms of volume and types of claims and the associated cost to the health care…
State: Colorado
 Population Health, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Cost
Cancer Prevalence in Colorado
Overview of cancer prevalence rates across all different payers. Breast cancer is the cancer with the highest prevalence followed by cervical cancer…
State: Colorado
 Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Utilization
Medicaid Frostbite Claims with Amputation
The data reflects the number of claims with a frostbite diagnosis and subsequent amputation within 7 days of the initial frostbite diagnosis.
State: Colorado
 Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers Medicaid Utilization
Coloradans with Pre-Existing Conditions
The data reflects the approximate number of Coloradans represented in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) with a diagnosis of one or…
State: Colorado
 Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid Quality, Utilization
Data Byte: Top 25 CPTs by Volume in CO
Data reflects paid amounts and charges for the top 25 Professional Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes by volume in 2016, submitted through…
State: Colorado
 Insurance Department, Researchers Commercial Cost
Association Between Receipt of a Medically Tailored Meal Program and Health Care Use
Findings: In this cohort study of 1020 adults that used a combined instrumental variable analysis and matching approach, participation in a medically…
State: Massachusetts
 Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Cost, Utilization
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