Diabetes Insurance Claims From Three Allegheny County Plans

De-identified insurance data from three managed care organizations in Allegheny County for the 2015 calendar year. The dataset represents insured populations from Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC.

Use Cases

• Analyze insurance claims patterns for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus across three specific health plans.
• Investigate co-occurrence of diabetes and cardiovascular disease diagnoses within the insured population.
• Study potential social determinants of health factors related to diabetes care access in Allegheny County.

Strengths

• Data sourced from three major managed care organizations in a defined region.
• Focuses on a specific calendar year (2015) for temporal consistency.

Limitations

• Excludes uninsured individuals and those enrolled in non-represented plans, limiting population representativeness.
• Contains known issues like misclassification and duplicate individuals.
• Data was collected for administrative purposes, not disease surveillance, affecting trend interpretation.

Provenance

Source

Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC.

Collection Method

De-identified administrative claims data.

Time Range

2015 calendar year.

Freshness

Last updated in March 2023, but data covers the 2015 calendar year.

Geography

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.