Allegheny County Depression Medication

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.

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Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Public Access Level Comment
Temporal Coverage 2015 - 2016
Geographic Unit Census Tract
Data Notes
Related Document(s) Data Dictionary, National Drug Codes
Frequency - Data Change Not Updated (Historical Only)
Frequency - Publishing Not Updated (Historical Only)
Data Steward Josh Feldmiller
Data Steward Email Josh Feldmiller