Case Studies

Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
The Impact of Aging on Medical Care Services Covered by Commercial Insurance in New Hampshire, NHID, August 2010 Using data from the NH Comprehensive Health Information System (NHCHIS), the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) and the NH Center for Public… State: New Hampshire	Insurance Department	Commercial	Cost
Analysis of Price Variations in New Hampshire Hospitals Using claims data from the New Hampshire Comprehensive Health Care Information System (NHCHIS) for CY2009, the NHID contracted with the Center for… State: New Hampshire	Consumers, Insurance Department, Providers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Utilization
Depression Among New Hampshire Medicaid Members This study profiled NH Medicaid members’ health care experience during the period of January 1, 2005 – December 31, 2005 (CY2005) based on claims… State: New Hampshire	Medicaid, Population Health	Medicaid	Cost, Utilization
A Commercial Insurance Study of Vaginal Delivery and Cesarean Section Rates at New Hampshire Hospitals, NHID, April 2011 Using claims data from the NH Comprehensive Health Information System (NHCHIS), the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) performed this analysis… State: New Hampshire	Insurance Department, Providers	Commercial	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Report on the Impact of House Bill 790 – An Act Relative to Dependent Coverage for Health Insurance in the 2007 Session, NHID, December 2008 Using commercial claims data from the NH Comprehensive Health Care Information System (NHCHIS), the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID)… State: New Hampshire	Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department	Commercial	Cost
Payments to providers: an inside look at carrier discounts, NHID, January 2010 Using claims data from the NH Comprehensive Health Information System (NHCHIS), the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) performed an analysis… State: New Hampshire	Consumers, Insurance Department, Providers	Commercial	Cost
Snapshot report- Total Imaging Services The following report shows utilization of services by geography (rate of Imaging Services per thousand people in the area) as well as average… State: Colorado		Commercial, Medicaid	Cost, Utilization
Snapshot Report - Total Imaging Services (High Cost Imaging) The following report shows utilization of services by geography (rate of High Cost Imaging services per thousand people in the area) as well as… State: Colorado		Commercial, Medicaid	Cost, Utilization
Snapshot Report – MRI of the knee The following report shows utilization of services by geography (rate of MRIs of the Knee per thousand people in the area) as well as average… State: Colorado		Commercial, Medicaid	Cost, Utilization
Snapshot Report – Knee Arthroscopy The following report shows utilization of services by geography (rate of Knee Arthroscopy per thousand people in the area) as well as average… State: Colorado		Commercial, Medicaid	Cost, Utilization
Snapshot Report – Vaginal Deliveries The following report shows utilization of services by geography (rate of Vaginal Deliveries per thousand people in the area) as well as average… State: Colorado		Commercial, Medicaid	Cost, Utilization
Medicaid Per Capita Cost of Care by County Map 2011 Data based on residence of 792,000 individuals. Cost of care does not include care for which claims are not submitted (i.e. HMOs and behavioral… State: Colorado		Medicaid	Cost
MA My HealthCare Options Website MyHealthCareOptions is a web-based health care resource created and managed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council… State: Massachusetts	Consumers, Employers, Providers	Commercial	Cost, Quality, Utilization
The Dartmouth Atlas of Children's Health Care of Northern New England The project published an Atlas and the project's first journal paper was released online August 2014 in Pediatrics (Weinstein SJ, House SA,… State: New Hampshire	Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Quality
Massachusetts Health Care Coverage: Enrollment Trends The July 2015 edition of the Massachusetts Health Care Coverage: Enrollment Trends, offers new insights into changes in health insurance coverage… State: Massachusetts	Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
Analysis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatments and Medications to Identify Best Practices Betterpath is building a tool that takes an individual patient’s medical data and compares it to the larger patient cohort in order to compare and… State: Colorado			Cost
Hospital Variation in Health Care Utilization by Children with Medical Complexity The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice completed this follow-on study to its 2013 Dartmouth Atlas of Children’s Health… State: Vermont	Consumers, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Vermont’s Community-Oriented All-Payer Medical Home Model Reduces Expenditures and Utilization While Delivering High-Quality Care This study was published in the national journal "Population Health Management" and evaluates the Vermont Blueprint for Health’s overall… State: Vermont	Consumers, Health Reform, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Potentially Preventable Emergency Room Visits Using data from the Rhode Island APCD, HealthFacts RI, the State of RI can now track potentially preventable emergency room visits over time,… State: Rhode Island	Consumers, Health Reform, Medicaid, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Utilization
Vermont Hospital Service Area (HSA) Profiles The Vermont Blueprint's HSA Profiles contain a broad set of population-based measures based on eligibility and claims data supplied to the state… State: Vermont	Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality, Utilization

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