Hypertension Insurance Claims from Allegheny County 2015-2016

Allegheny County provides de-identified insurance claims data for hypertension and hyperlipidemia from three managed care organizations. The dataset covers insured populations for the 2015 and 2016 calendar years, representing a specific regional healthcare cohort.

Use Cases

• Analyze hypertension and hyperlipidemia prevalence trends within the Allegheny County insured population for 2015-2016
• Investigate potential correlations between cardiovascular disease indicators and social determinants of health tags present in the data
• Assess managed care organization-specific patterns for conditions like high blood pressure using the provided insurance claims

Strengths

• Data sourced from three major managed care organizations (Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC)
• Covers two full calendar years (2015 and 2016) of insurance claims
• Focuses on specific, high-prevalence conditions: hypertension and hyperlipidemia

Limitations

• Data excludes uninsured individuals and those enrolled in non-represented health plans, limiting population representativeness
• Contains known issues such as potential misclassification and duplicate individual records
• Collected for administrative purposes, not surveillance, which may affect trend interpretation

Provenance

Source

Three managed care organizations in Allegheny County: Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC

Collection Method

De-identified administrative insurance claims data

Time Range

2015 and 2016 calendar years

Freshness

Last updated in March 2023, but underlying data is from 2015-2016.

Geography

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA