Member Enrollment Selection Table (MEST)
- Kenley Money
Member Enrollment Selection Table (MEST)
Commercial Carriers and Arkansas Medicaid
May 2024
Version 1.0.2024
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Overview
Access to timely, accurate, and relevant data is essential to improving quality, mitigating costs, and promoting transparency and efficiency in the healthcare delivery system. Pursuant to the Arkansas Healthcare Transparency Initiative (HTI) of 2015,[1] the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI), or the “Administrator,” is hosting a comprehensive all-payer claims database (APCD) on behalf of the Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) that houses member enrollment data, medical claims, pharmacy claims, dental claims, and provider data.
Introduction
The Member Enrollment Selection Table (MEST) allows health data users and researchers to easily segment and identify qualified study populations by member enrollment and coverage activity by month or year.
These data must be selected in conjunction with claims-based data sourced from the Arkansas APCD, including:
Fully insured commercial payers
Self-insured entities receiving public funds
Arkansas Medicaid
Helpful Resources
The MEST presentation provides a high level overview of the tool, how it’s used, it’s value add to data users and pricing.
The e-Book provides MEST build methodology, field layouts, data definitions and data use support.
