Allegheny County Depression Medication

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
21 This data appears in the Data Across Sectors for Health Data User Guide https://wiki.tessercat.net/wiki/DASH_Data_Guide#Anxiety_and_Depression_Medication
53 The following National Drug Codes (NDC) for Depression were used by the managed care organizations for classifying Depression medications during this project. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/873931dc-7c9d-4d46-890c-345891c221b4/resource/02239520-8dee-4095-8765-819b6d09b1c1/download/ndc-codes.xlsx
8 depression_all_2016.csv https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/873931dc-7c9d-4d46-890c-345891c221b4/resource/56fb7a63-7a97-4c23-9ffb-666651546381/download/depression_all_2016.csv
8 1.depression2015.csv https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/873931dc-7c9d-4d46-890c-345891c221b4/resource/9ef39270-8a95-4069-b61f-6c40b5e45c12/download/1.depression2015.csv

Tags

  • depression
  • social-determinants-of-health
  • depression-medication
  • achd-dash

Topics

  • Local Government

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