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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 foc...
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 2015-20...
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 an...
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 u...
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 APCD...
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 Payer...
State: Minnesota
 Consumers, Health Reform, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Cost, Utilization
State-Based Risk Adjustment System Assessment Feasibility Study
This report provides an assessment of using state APCD data in MN to support a state-based risk adjustment program for the Minnesota market. The repor...
State: Minnesota
 Health Reform, Insurance Department Commercial Cost, Utilization
Massachusetts Commercial Prescription Drug Use and Spending, 2015-2017
This is the second study on prescription drug use and spending released from CHIA. For this analysis, CHIA used a subset of commercial pharmacy claims...
State: Massachusetts
 Consumers, Health Reform, Researchers Commercial Cost, Utilization
Health Plan Rate Analysis
Background: The purpose of the project is to analyze the medical trends in Colorado and determine the appropriate average trend to be used by insuranc...
State: Colorado
 Health Reform, Insurance Department Commercial Cost
Combining Electronic Medical Records with Claims Data to Identify Opportunities for Improving Outcomes for Medicaid Patients
The vision for this network is that it will support a broad array of data uses including development of improved quality metrics using both clinical a...
State: Colorado
 Health Reform, Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers Medicaid Cost, Quality