The Arkansas Healthcare Expenditures Dashboard makes data on expenditures for medical, pharmacy, and dental services in the state available for years 2021-2023. This interactive dashboard includes expenditures by public and private insurers as well as insured individuals’ out-of-pocket expenditures. At the time of publication, Medicare data were only available for 2021.
This is the first time that Arkansas’s healthcare expenditures have been profiled in this manner. The dashboard is intended to provide accessible and informative healthcare data to support assessments of health system performance, healthcare access challenges, and the influence of various factors on healthcare spending in the state.
Data can be filtered by year of service, type of insurance coverage, and service type by using the filters in the blue banner on the left side of the dashboard. Selecting a category in any of the graphics will filter the dashboard to show the selected results. Categories from more than one graphic may be selected simultaneously.
To ensure that accurate data are displayed, click the “Reset Filters in View” button in the left column or refresh the page to reset all graphics to the default settings before initiating a new inquiry.
About the Data
The data presented here were obtained through the Arkansas Healthcare Transparency Initiative (HTI), which includes the Arkansas All-Payer Claims Database (APCD), for years 2021-2023. The data include enrollment records and medical, dental, and pharmacy claims for commercial plans, Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS), Medicaid qualified health plans (QHP), Medicare, and Medicare Advantage plans. At the time of publication, Medicare data were only available for 2021.
Measures available include the number of individuals with at least 30 days of coverage during each year, total expenditures, and average annualized expenditures per person. Average annualized expenditures were determined using the average amount of expenditures per person, per day.
Medical expenditures can be filtered by the following service types:
- Outpatient Visit: Based on revenue codes, procedure codes, place-of-service codes, and type-of-bill codes indicating an outpatient service (excludes those that occurred during an inpatient or nursing home stay).
- Emergency Department Visit: Based on revenue and procedure codes that indicate an emergency department visit (excludes those that resulted in an inpatient or nursing home stay).
- Inpatient Stays: Based on room-and-board revenue codes (includes all expenditures for all services occurring during the stay excludes any stays that were identified as occurring in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) or intermediate care facility (ICF)).
- Nursing Home Stays (includes SNF stays): Defined using type-of-bill and revenue codes indicating that services occurred at an SNF. ICF stays are defined using type-of- bill and revenue codes indicating a stay at an ICF (includes all expenditures for services that occurred during the stay).
- Other: All other medical claims that did not occur during a stay at a facility (e.g., durable medical equipment, outpatient labs).
Pharmacy expenditures are captured from prescriptions filled by pharmacists or pharmacies. They do not include pharmaceuticals administered during a medical visit.
Dental expenditures are captured from services that were billed to dental insurance carriers by dentists.
Data on race included in the dashboard reflect only those patients for whom race is known.
When using filters, some categories may be missing because results with fewer than 100 individuals will not be displayed to preserve patient privacy.
This work is made possible with funding from the Arkansas Insurance Department.