Arkansas

Resource Category Carriers Purpose
Curbing the Growing Fragmentation of Veterans’ Health Care
This study quantifies a major shift in locus of VA critical care, a likely outcome of expanded non-VA health insurance coverage that was previously ca...
Consumers, Health Reform, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers Medicaid Utilization
Delay in breast cancer surgery: evaluating patient, healthcare access, and social vulnerability predictors
This case study identified disparities in delay in breast cancer surgery persist across race, healthcare access, and community-level vulnerability. Th...
State: Arkansas
Consumers, Insurance Department, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Quality, Utilization
Novel approaches in linkage of data sources to explore the associations between purchase of opioid prescriptions during pregnancy and adverse neonatal outcomes
This case study evaluated patterns of opioid purchases by payment source among pregnant women in Arkansas and examine their associations with adverse ...
State: Arkansas
Population Health, Providers, Researchers Commercial Quality
Pediatric Asthma Population Risk Stratification using k-Means Clustering
Incorporating social determinants of health to identify distinct pediatric asthma patient groups can help stratify populations by their risk of advers...
State: Arkansas
Researchers Commercial Quality
Profile of the Primary Care Physician Workforce in Arkansas
"Healthcare provider shortages continue to be one of the most pressing challenges faced by healthcare organizations and communities seeking to en...
State: Arkansas
Health Reform, Providers, Researchers Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Quality
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
Asthma Quality Measurement and Adverse Outcomes in Medicaid-Enrolled Children
To determine the association between the asthma medication ratio (AMR) quality measure and adverse outcomes among Medicaid-enrolled children with asth...
State: Arkansas
Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Researchers Medicaid Utilization
Arkansas Medicare Provider Episode Report: Bilateral Cataract Removal with Lens Implant
The Arkansas APCD analyzed data correlations between the mean episode costs stratified by surgeons and the episode volume of bilateral cataract remova...
State: Arkansas
Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Medicare Cost
Arkansas Medicare Chronic Conditions Report
The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement analyzed chronic conditions in Medicare beneficiaries within the 75 Arkansas counties. Using data from the ...
State: Arkansas
Health Reform, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Medicare Cost, Utilization
Arkansas Medicare HbA1c Utilization Report
The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement analyzed type II diabetes among Arkansas Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and over within the 75 Arkans...
State: Arkansas
Consumers, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers Medicare Quality, Utilization