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Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
An Examination of Trends in Low-Value Opioid Prescribing for Acute Low Back Pain in Rural vs. Non-Rural Virginia This case study uses Virginia APCD data to examine low-value opioid prescribing for acute low back pain among over 850,000 insured residents from 2019... State: Virginia	Consumers, Health Reform, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Guideline-Concordant Care and Clinician and Clinic Characteristics for Patients With Schizophrenia This case study finds that for patients with schizophrenia in Massachusetts, psychiatric nurse practitioners and mental health clinics delivered care ... State: Massachusetts	Medicaid, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Quality
Inequitable Access to Risk-Appropriate Neonatal Care: Evidence from a Regionalized Perinatal System in Arkansas This case study analyzes a decade of birth data in Arkansas to evaluate whether newborns receive care at the appropriate level of neonatal facility. I... State: Arkansas	Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Quality, Utilization
Engagement and retention in HIV care in rural Southern U.S. using an All-Payer Claims Database This case study evaluates the HIV care continuum in Arkansas, finding that HIV testing, engagement, and retention in care are all below national avera... State: Arkansas	Medicaid, Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Low-Value and No-Value Care in Healthcare: A Narrative Review This narrative review summarizes the concepts of low- and no-value care (LNVC), the <br /> drivers behind them, and potential strategies for de-imple... State: Virginia	Health Reform, Population Health, Researchers	Commercial, Medicare	Cost, Quality
Insurance gaps at age-19 and age-26 health insurance eligibility thresholds by childhood-onset condition severity, Colorado 2014-2018 This case study examines health insurance coverage gaps among Colorado young adults at two age-based cutoffs — losing Medicaid at 19 and aging off par... State: Colorado	Consumers, Employers, Providers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Predictors of telehealth use after the Minnesota Telehealth Act: analysis using the Minnesota All Payer Claims Database This research article examines telehealth use in Minnesota following the 2021 Minnesota Telehealth Act, finding that younger patients, those with depr... State: Minnesota	Population Health, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
Exogenous Testosterone Is Associated with Lower Odds of Stroke in Young Men: An Exploratory Analysis of the Colorado Claims Database The abstract reports that establishing a stroke transition-of-care clinic — where patients are seen by neurology within two weeks after hospital disch... State: Colorado	Population Health	Commercial	Quality
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... State: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin	Consumers, Health Reform, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers	Medicaid	Utilization
Medicaid Accountable Care Model Designs and Maternal Health Measures In this study, both Medicaid ACO models were associated with improved outcomes, but with some differences between models, suggesting that states shoul... State: Massachusetts	Medicaid, Population Health	Medicaid	Utilization

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