Description
These datasets provide de-identified insurance data for hyperlipidemia. The data is provided by three managed care organizations in Allegheny County (Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC) and represents their insured population for the 2015 and 2016 calendar years.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyperlipidemia (2016) | CSV | hyperlipidemia_all_2016.csv | Open resource |
| Hyperlipidemia (2015) | CSV | 4.hyperlipidemia2015.csv | Open resource |
| National Drug Codes | XLS | The following National Drug Codes (NDC) for hyperlipidemia medications were used by the managed care organizations for classifying an hyperlipidemia medication during this project. | Open resource |
| DASH Dash Guide | HTML | This data appears in the Data Across Sectors for Health Data User Guide | Open resource |