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The Arkansas Healthcare Transparency Initiative (HTI) releases updates to the Arkansas All-Payer Claims Database quarterly. The Arkansas APCD 24B database is now available.  The Arkansas APCD 24B release includes data through September 2024??.  The Data Coverage table provides overall coverage periods.  Some submitters have submitted data through the next quarter and some submitters have exemptions affecting missing coverage. The Universe Counts report provides detailed counts for all file types included in this update.

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Source Category

COVERAGE

Arkansas Works Data

Jan 2014 – March June 2024

Commercial, Fully Insured Data

Jan 2013 – March June 2024

Arkansas Employee Benefits Division Data

Jan 2013 – March June 2024

Arkansas Medicaid Data

Jan 2013 – March June 2024

Arkansas Qualified Health Plan Data

Jan 2014 – March June 2024

Arkansas Medicare Data

Jan 2013 - Dec 20212022

Vital Statistics Data - Arkansas Birth Certificate Data

Jan 2013 - Dec 2023

Vital Statistics Data - Arkansas Death Certificate Data

Jan 2013 - Dec 2023

Inpatient Hospital Discharge Data (uninsured or self-pay patients)

Jan 2013 - Dec 20222023

Emergency Department Data (uninsured or self-pay patients)

Jan 2013 - Dec 20222023

Cancer Registry Data

Jan 2013 - Dec 20202021

Medical Marijuana Cardholders Data

Aug 2018 – Dec 2022Sept 2024

Arkansas Workers' Compensation Data

Jan 2013 – March June 2024

Member Enrollment Selection Table (NEW!)

Jan 2016 - Dec 2023June 2024

With a few exceptions, all required submitting entities have submitted data in the ranges indicated in the Data Coverage table above.  Refer to the Source Specific Release Notes section for more information.

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Issue, 99MDI3 24A.26% of the Standard Insurance Company (Ameritas) dental claims have no matching member records (ME107). The APCD Technical Support team is working with the carrier to resolve this issue

https://achiapcd.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AoDt1Q

Issue

SE_ID

Submitting Entity

Release Notes

Release Status

68985

62049

Starmount/

Unum

These entities have submitted incorrectly formatted APCD_Unique_ID (ME998) values. The Arkansas APCD team is working with the submitting entity to resolve the data. These data will not be included in data releases until the issue is resolved.

99MDI1, 99MDI2

99MDI3

99MDI4, 99MDI5

MedImpact

MedImpact is a new pharmacy submitter. Member IDs and subscriber IDs are problematic on much of the member data and pharmacy claims causing orphaned claims. Use with caution. The Arkansas APCD team is working with the submitter to resolve the issue.

Update: Issues with 99MDI1 and 99MDI3 have been resolved.

Issue: MedImpact Pharmacy Orphans

Partially resolved for

24B. 99MDI1, 99MDI3, 99MDI4 and 99MDI5 are now correct

69019

Ameritas/

Standard Insurance Company

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16751

USAble HMO, Inc.

This is a new AR BCBS submitter. Submitted data begins January 2024.

Informational

99HSM1

HealthSmart

Member IDs on Medical (MC137) and Pharmacy (PC107) Claims have been corrected and now match Member (ME107) data.

Subscriber IDs on Member (ME117) data and Medical Pharmacy (MC141PC108) Claims , and Pharmacy (PC108have been corrected and now have matches.

Subscriber IDs on Member (ME117) data and Medical (MC141) Claims have been corrected and now all have matches.

Subscriber IDs on Member (ME117) data and Pharmacy (PC108) Claims have not been resolved and do not currently match. The APCD Technical Support team is working on transformation rules to resolve this issue.

See data tip https://achiapcd.atlassian.net/wiki/x/EIDiG

Partially resolved Resolved in 24B

10155

WellCare

ME001_CAT has been updated to differentiate between Medicare Advantage plans (MCR_ADV) and Medicare Advantage Pharmacy plans (MCRAdvPhrm).

Informational

81973

Aetna

An issue was discovered in older data where enrollment segments were incorrectly left open. The Arkansas APCD team worked with the data submitter to develop transformation rules identifying and correcting these segments.

Data users should review enrollment analyses involving this submitter to ensure active members for this carrier are counted correctly.

Resolved in 24B

60054A

Aetna

There are 26% distinct Pharmacy claims in 60054A data that are orphaned (the dental claim carrier specific unique member ID (PC107) does not exist in eligibility/member data (ME107) for this submitting entity). Resolution in development.

https://achiapcd.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AQBZ7

Issue

Important Information

  • The APCD Unique ID (ME998 or Hash ID) is consistent with the previous build.

  • Review the latest published on the APCD website for information about the latest data available.

  • Utilize the searchable Arkansas APCD data dictionaries and tip sheets (be sure to review all of them).

  • For high level descriptions of the APCD and its data, refer to the Arkansas APCD Infographic for a summary of the latest data available to data requesters.