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Addressing a Measurement Gap by Linking State All-Payer Claims Database with State Cancer Registry Data
A limitation of the central cancer registries to examine associations between mammography use and cancer diagnosis is their lack of cancer screening h...
Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Utilization
Hospital Facility Prices Declined As A Result Of Oregon’s Hospital Payment Cap
Hospital prices for commercially insured people are high and vary widely, prompting states to seek ways to control hospital price growth. In October 2...
State: Oregon
Consumers, Employers, Health Reform, Insurance Department Commercial, Medicare Utilization
Trends in maternal opioid use disorder and neonatal abstinence syndrome in Maine, 2016-2022
The objective of this study was to estimate trends in maternal opioid use disorder (OUD) and neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in Maine using the mos...
State: Maine
Consumers, Insurance Department, Population Health, Researchers Medicaid, Medicare Utilization
Rare fungal infection gains prevalence in new region
The epidemiology of blastomycosis in Vermont, USA, is poorly understood. Using insurance claims data, we estimated the mean annual blastomycosis incid...
State: Vermont
Consumers, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare
In Three States, Growth In Prescription Drug Spending Is Unaffordable Even When Accounting For Rebates
Over the past five years, several states have implemented statewide cost growth targets to increase transparency and accountability around the drivers...
Consumers, Insurance Department, Researchers Commercial Cost
Small Intervention, Big Impact: Health Care Cost Reductions Related to Medically Tailored Nutrition
Food is a critical aspect of health care for people living with illnesses like congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and di...
State: Colorado
Consumers, Health Reform, Insurance Department, Population Health, Providers Cost
Impact of the Patient-Centered Medical Home on Consistently High-Cost Patients
Patient-centered medical homes in Maryland’s multipayer demonstration disrupted the pattern of recurrently high expenditure among the costliest patien...
State: Maryland
Consumers, Health Reform, Providers, Researchers Commercial Cost, Quality
Surveillance of the Initiation of, Participation in, and Completion of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Minnesota, 2017–2018
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an evidence-based secondary prevention program designed to improve cardiovascular health after a cardiac event. The obj...
State: Minnesota
Consumers, Population Health, Providers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Utilization
The Health Care Costs of Extreme Heat
“A new report produced by an interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff and students at Virginia Commonwealth University and published by the Center fo...
State: Virginia
Consumers, Health Reform, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Utilization
Naloxone Prescription in Response to the Opioid Epidemic
In response to the opioid epidemic, policies to expand access to the overdose-reversal drug naloxone — e.g., allowing pharmacists to dispense naloxone...
State: Arkansas
Consumers, Insurance Department, Population Health, Providers Commercial, Medicaid Utilization