Pharmacy

Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
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
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
Medication-assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Rhode Island: Who Gets Treatment, and Does Treatment Improve Health Outcomes? The New England Public Policy Center at the Boston Fed recently released a report entitled “Medication-assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in R... State: Rhode Island	Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Quality, Utilization
Impact Study of Project Angel Heart’s Home-Delivered Meals Through this study, Project Angel Heart hopes to examine the cost patterns of clients prior to service, during service, and post- service, as well as ... State: Colorado	Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Cost
Identify Opportunities to Reduce Use of Potentially Harmful Medications During and Post Surgery This research entity will define patterns of opioid analgesia and prolonged opioid use in a large cohort study of patients that underwent major inpati... State: Colorado	Consumers, Population Health, Providers, Researchers		Utilization
New Long-Term Opioid Prescription-Filling Behavior Arising in the 15 Months After Orthopaedic Surgery in Virginia This study determined the rates of long-term opioid prescription-filling behavior after common orthopaedic surgical procedures in patients who were no... State: Virginia	Consumers, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial	Utilization
Pharmacy Quality Alliance Opioid Prescribing Measurers in Washington State, 2014-18 Washington State Office of Financial Management staff used the WA-APCD to run Pharmacy Quality Alliance Opioid Prescribing Measures for 2014-2018. State: Washington	Consumers, Employers, Health Reform, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Cost, Quality, Utilization

Pharmacy

APCD Council