Description
These Census Tract-level datasets described here provide de-identified diagnosis data for customers of three managed care organizations in Allegheny County (Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC) that have filed a claim for depression medications in 2015 and 2016. The data also includes the number of enrolled members in the three participating managed care organizations in 2015 and 2016.
Disclaimer: Users should be cautious of using administrative claims data as a measure of disease prevalence and interpreting trends over time, as data provided were collected for purposes other than surveillance. Limitations of these data include but are not limited to: misclassification, duplicate individuals, exclusion of individuals who did not seek care in past two years and those who are: uninsured, enrolled in plans not represented in the dataset, or were not enrolled in one of the represented plans for at least 90 days.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Drug Codes | XLS | The following National Drug Codes (NDC) for Depression were used by the managed care organizations for classifying Depression medications during this project. | Open resource |
| Depression Medication Data (2016) | CSV | depression_all_2016.csv | Open resource |
| Depression Medication Data (2015) | CSV | 1.depression2015.csv | Open resource |
| DASH Dash Guide | HTML | This data appears in the Data Across Sectors for Health Data User Guide | Open resource |