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Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
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
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
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
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
Predictors of telehealth use after the Minnesota Telehealth Act: analysis using the Minnesota All Payer Claims Database This article examines telehealth use among commercially insured and Medicare Advantage patients in Minnesota using 2021 and 2022 data from the Minneso... State: Minnesota	Consumers, Population Health	Commercial, Medicare	Utilization
Recommendations to Expand Access to and Use of the Minnesota All Payer Claims Database: Final Report With renewed interest in health care reform and a focus on data-driven decision-making across stakeholders and industries, many have focused on contai... State: Minnesota	Consumers, Providers, Researchers	Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare	Utilization
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... State: Rhode Island	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

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