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0086

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99MCD1

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Description

Logic to understand Arkansas Medicaid ethnicity values

–The original logic applied a general categorization to ethnicity by categorizing grouping all values into 33 (Not Hispanic or Latino – Other or Blank (no race selected)) or 34 (Hispanic or Latino – Other or Blank (no race selected))

–Arkansas Medicaid has updated the population of the ethnicity flag with more specific data that aligns with the values described in Appendix I – Ethnicity.

–Ethnicity fields have been corrected for all years of Arkansas Medicaid member data.

NOTE: Ethnicity is an optional field and not populated well by other carriers.

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Action / Resolution

The updated ethnicity data has been included with the 21B build. Data requesters having received data prior to September 2021 should still consider the information above.

Category 1

Data Quality

Category 2

Ethnicity

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Issue