–The original logic applied a general categorization to ethnicity by categorizing 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.