Archived MA APCD Data Applications

MA APCD Applications for 2020

Applicant	Organization	Project Title	Close Date	Status
Megan B. Cole, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor	Trustees of Boston University	Evaluating Medicaid Accountable Care Models	November 8, 2020	Approved
Remle P. Crowe, Phd	Massachusetts Ambulance Association	Ambulance Payment and Rate Analysis	May 3, 2020	Approved
Anh Ngyueb, Assistant Professor of Economics	Carnegie Mellon University	Bundling in Competitive Market with Adverse Selection	May 3, 2020	Approved
Martin Gaynor, Research Associate	National Bureau of Economic Research	Hospital Physician Acquisition and Provider Behavior	January 26, 2020	Approved
Lorel Burns, Assistant Vice Provost for Research	New York University College of Dentistry	Root Canal Therapy in Children: Analysis of Disparities and Value	January 26, 2020	Approved

MA APCD Applications for 2019

Applicant	Organization	Project Title	Close Date	Status
Ashish Shrowty, Director, Data and Analytics	Seniorlink, Inc.	Analysis of Caregiver Support Impact on Healthcare Utilization	November 4, 2019	Approved
Adam Schaffer, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Clinical Analytics Specialist, CRICO	CRICO (CRICO is the malpractice liability carrier for the Harvard Medical Institution)	An assessment of the relationship between clinical volume and medical malpractice claims risk as a means of identifying patient safety vulnerabilities	September 30, 2019	Approved
Tom Holmes, Professor of Economics	University of Minnesota, Department of Economics	Competition and Insurance Benefit Design	September 3, 2019	Approved
Cecilia Lee, MD, Assistant Professor	University of Washington, Seattle	The association between diabetic retinopathy and other ocular or systemic conditions (Amendment)	September 3, 2019	Approved
Mark Shepard, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Policy	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)	Comparing Health Insurance Types and Understanding Churn: Evidence from Longitudinal Analysis and Natural Experiments	July 30, 2019	Approved
Eva Pasedas, Director, Grants & Contracts	Institute of Urban Health Research and Practice Northeastern University (Northeastern University)	Exploring Factors Affecting Medication Adherence Trajectories	June 17, 2019	Withdrawn
Thomas Buchmueller, Professor	The Regents of the University of Michigan	Can Urgent Care Centers Increase Access to Care, While Decreasing Costs? Evidence from Massachusetts	May 31, 2019	Approved
Kay Larholt, Director of Integrated Knowledge Systems	MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation	MIT LEAPS Rheumatoid Arthritis Regimen Optimization Pilot	May 31, 2019	Approved
Jennifer Atlas, Director of Strategy and Special Projects	Franciscan Children's Hospital	Market Demands Study	April 4, 2019	Approved
Dr. JoAnna Leyenaar, Associate Professor of Pediatrics & The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice	Dartmouth College	Urban-rural disparities in healthcare for children with medical complexity	April 4, 2019	Approved
William Soares MD, MS, University of Massachusetts Medical School	The Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science, University of Massachusetts Medical School	SPOiLER – Towards Safer Prescribing of Legal Opioids in the Emergency Room	January 22, 2019	Approved
Vicki Fung, Ph.D., Assistant Professor	The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital	Medicaid Payment Policy and Access to Care for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries	January 22, 2019	Approved
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics	National Bureau of Economic Research	Clinical and Economic Performance of Health Systems	January 22, 2019	Approved
Megan Cole, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor	Trustees of Boston University	Integrating Behavioral Health Into the Pediatric Medical Home for Low-Income Children	January 22, 2019	Approved
Julia Raifman, ScD, Assistant Professor	Trustees of Boston University	Pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation in Massachusetts	January 22, 2019	Approved

MA APCD Applications for 2018

Applicant	Organization	Project Title	Close Date	Status
Oscar Soler Sanchez, PhD candidate in Economics	Yale University	The welfare effects of convenience clinics in the Massachusetts health care market	November 6, 2018	Approved
Diana Walter, Director, OptumCare HealthCare Economics	OptumCare	Reliant Performance	November 6, 2018	Approved
Wendy Chan, Associate Director, Sponsored Programs Administration	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	The impact of Massachusetts Cost control legislation on prices and competition	November 6, 2018	Approved
Shenam Ticku, Instructor	Harvard Medical School/ Harvard School of Dental Medicine	Oral health utilization in the state of Massachusetts	September 4, 2018	Approved
Nancy Beaulieu, Research Associate	Harvard Medical School	Evaluation of Massachusetts Medicaid ACO Program	August 30, 2018	Approved
Robert Murray, Manager, Strategic Analysis and Planning	Lahey Health System, Inc.	Understanding the Ambulatory Utilization Trends within the Populations Served	July 31, 2018	Approved
James Whedon, Director of Health Services Research	Southern California University of Health Sciences	Atlas of Integrative Health	March 25, 2018	Approved
Christine Murphy, Director, Policy Payment and Data Integrity (PPDIS)	Neighborhood Health Plan	Market, Medical and Cost Analysis	February 21, 2018	Pending
Ron Goettler, PhD, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Research	Simon Business School, University of Rochester	The Competitive Effects of Physician-Hospital Integration	January 19, 2018	Approved

MA APCD Applications for 2017

Applicant	Organization	Project Title	Close Date	Status
Alan Sorensen, Professor of Economics	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Regulation and Competition in Dialysis Industry	December 11, 2017	Approved
Kimberley Geissler, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management	University of Massachusetts (Amherst)	Effects of Utilization Patterns and Coordination of Care on Outcomes	Oct. 4, 2017	Approved
Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, PhD, MS, Associate Professor	University of Massachusetts (Amherst)	Evaluation of Effectiveness & Cost-Effectiveness of Drug Courts	Oct. 4, 2017	Withdrawn
Catharine Wang, PhD, Associate Professor and Principal Investigator	Trustees of Boston University, School of Public Health – Community Health Sciences Department	Adoption of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing in Diverse Populations: A Multilevel Approach	June 22, 2017	Approved
Scott Haller, Lovett C. Peters Fellow in Healthcare	Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research	Massachusetts MRI Price Variation	May 1, 2017	Approved
Summer Hawkins, Associate Professor	Trustees of Boston College	Impact of the ACA on Preventive Health Services	May 1, 2017	Approved
Evan Young, Head of Data Analytics	MMS Analytics	MyMedicalShopper Massachusetts Expansion Feasibility Study	May 1, 2017	Approved
Cloud Cray, Founder and Chief Executive Officer	Patient Price, Inc.	Out of Pocket Comparison	May 1, 2017	Approved
Naomi Bardach, Assistant Professor	The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of its San Francisco campus	IMPLEMENT Aim 1 (New pediatric quality measures for sickle cell disease, asthma, and suicidality)	February 27, 2017	Approved

MA APCD Applications for 2016

Applicant	Organization	Project Title	Close Date	Status
Dr Helen Suh, Professor	Northeastern University	Assessing Susceptibility to Air Pollution Using Hybrid Data Mining and Epidemiological Techniques	December 22, 2016	Approved
Meredith B. Rosenthal, PhD, Professor of Health Economics and Policy	Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health	Will the Academic Innovations Collaborative Increase the Value of Primary Care and Improve Providers’ and Trainees’ Experiences?	December 22, 2016	Approved
Dr. Jane O'Brien, Chief Medical Officer	Franciscan Children's Hospital	Health Resource Use and Spending for Children with Medical Complexity	November 9, 2016	Approved
Denny Brennan, Executive Director	Massachusetts Health Data Consortium	Spotlight Analytics (APCD 2015)	November 9, 2016	Approved
Cecilia Lee, MD, Assistant Professor	University of Washington, Seattle	The association between diabetic retinopathy and other ocular or systemic conditions	September 16, 2016	Approved
Belen Fraile, Senior Director of Population Management and Decision Support	Dana Farber Cancer Institute	Understanding Variations in Cancer Care in the State of Massachusetts, Measuring Value	August 31, 2016	Approved
Robert W. Yeh, Director the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Long-Term Resource Utilization, Readmissions, and Outcomes after Acute Myocardial Infarction or Percutaneous Coronary Intervention	August 11, 2016	Approved
Kelsey Stevens, Senior Consulting Actuary	Wakely Consulting Group	HNE/MHI Risk Adjustment Analysis	August 11, 2016	Approved
Turgay Ayer, Assistant Professor	Georgia Institute of Technology	Upcoding Bias and Prediction Accuracy of Affordable Care Act (ACA) Risk Adjustment Models	August 11, 2016	Approved
Ed Bassin, Chief Analytics Officer	Archway Health	Identifying High Efficiency Providers for Developing a Bundled Payment Market in Massachusetts	August 11, 2016	Approved
Elizabeth Schoenfeld, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine	Baystate Medical Center	The Patterns and predictors of urologic intervention following an ED visit for renal colic	June 22, 2016	Approved
Chrysalyne Schmults, Assoicate Professor of Dermatology	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Upcoding Skin Cancer Expenditure and Equity Analysis	June 22, 2016	Approved
Evan Matros, MS, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery	Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	The impact of reimbursement on variations in breast reconstruction utilization and quality across hospitals, physicians and payers in the state of Massachusetts	May 25, 2016	Approved
Arlene Ash, President and Division Chief, Department of QHS	UMass Medical School	High Intensity ED Use in Massachusetts	May 25, 2016	Approved
Karen Freund, MD, MPH, Vice Chair of Medicine	Tufts Medical Center	Gender Disparities in Stability of Insurance Coverage & Chronic Disease Management	April 26, 2016	Approved
Jennifer Kwok, PhD Candidate	University of California, Berkeley	Influence of the Provider-Patient Relationship on Patient Health-Behavior and Outcomes	April 26, 2016	Approved
Meng-Yun Lin, PhD Candidate	Boston University School of Public Health	Does Physician Leadership Play a Role in Increasing ACO Efficiency?—Evidence from the Alternative Quality Contract	April 26, 2016	Approved
Mathijs de Vaan / Peter S. Bearman	UC-Berkeley/Columbia	The Effects of Network Structure on Provider Learning, Health Outcomes, and Costs of Care	April 1, 2016	Approved
David Dranove / Soheil Ghili	Northwestern University	Narrow Networks in the Health Insurance Market	April 1, 2016	Approved
James Courtemanche / Barbara Rabson	Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP)	Measuring the Clinical and Economic Outcomes Associated with Delivery Systems	April 1, 2016	Approved
Gregory Pence, Interim CFO and Chief Actuary	Minuteman Health	Massachusetts Healthcare Costs and Utilization Estimates	March 2, 2016	Approved
Daniel Caron, Chief Operating Officer	RxREVU	Improving Healthcare Outcomes and Lowering Costs by Improving Prescribing Effectiveness through Data Analysis	March 2, 2016	Approved
Bill Wyatt, Director, Research and Development, Quality Measurement	Healthgrades	Hospital Risk Adjusted Mortality and Complications in Massachusetts	March 2, 2016	Approved
Robert H. Aseltine, Jr. , Professor and Interim Chair, Division of Behavioral Sciences	UCONN Health	A Study on High Deductible Health Plans in Massachusetts	Feb. 5, 2016	Approved
Denny Brennan, Executive Director	Massachusetts Health Data Consortium	Spotlight Analytics	Feb. 5, 2016	Approved
David Bierschied, Director of Strategic Financial Planning	UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.	Community Needs Planning	Feb. 5, 2016	Approved
Amresh Hanchate, Associate Professor	Boston University School of Medicine	Patterns in ED Use With and Without Ambulance Use, and Subsequent Healthcare Utilization	Feb. 5, 2016	Approved
Gregory Pence, Interim CFO and Chief Actuary	Minuteman Health	Massachusetts Healthcare Costs and Utilization Estimates	Feb. 5, 2016	Approved
Ashwini Ranade, PhD Student	Northeastern University	Oral health services and oral-systemic health connections	Feb. 5, 2016	Approved
Nathaniel Rickles, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice & Administration	Northeastern University School of Pharmacy	Exploring Factors Affecting Medication Adherence Trajectories	Feb. 5, 2016	Approved
Dr. Helen Suh, Professor	Northeastern University	Assessing Susceptibility to Air Pollution Using Hybrid Data Mining and Epidemiological Techniques	Feb. 5, 2016	Approved

MA APCD Applications for 2015

Applicant	Organization	Project Title	Close Date	Status
Meredith Rosenthal PhD, Professor of Health Economics and Policy	Harvard School of Public Health	Will the Academic Innovations Collaborative Increase the Value of Primary Care and Improve Providers’ and Trainees’ Experiences?	December 26, 2015	Approved
Sean Nicholson, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management	CornellUniversity	Competition, Bargaining, and Physician Networks in Health Care	December 26, 2015	Approved
Elena Tomov, Manager of Advanced Analytics	Risk Management Foundation Harvard Medical Institutions	Billing Denominator Pilot	December 26, 2015	Approved
Vicki Fung, Assistant Professor of Medicine	Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School	The Effects of Provider Supply and Insurance Benefit Design on Medical Care Use and Outcomes	November 26, 2015	Approved
Kenneth Mandl, Professor	Boston Children's Hospital	Network Analysis of Providers and Shared Patients	November 26, 2015	Approved
Ariel Pakes, Professor of Economics	Harvard University and the National Bureau for Economic Research	Prices, Incentives and Hospital-Physician Integration in Health Care	November 26, 2015	Approved
Dr. Gary Young, Director	Institute of Urban Health Research and Practice, Northeastern University	Impact of alternative payment models on utilization of diagnostic imaging services in the APCD database	October 3, 2015	Approved
Amanda Cook, Researcher	Purdue University	Market Power and Rate Setting for Hospitals and Insurance Companies in MA	October 3, 2015	Approved
Ashish Jha, K.T. Li Professor of International Health	Harvard School of Public Health	The relationship between opioid prescribing and opioid overdose	September 10, 2015	Approved
Pranav Mehta, SVP Product and Business Manager	Harvard Pilgrim Health Care	SVP Product and Massachusetts Market (request for additional data)	September 10, 2015	Approved
Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA, Professor of Health Care Policy	Harvard Medical School	The Changing Landscape of Health Care Delivery in Massachusetts	June 303, 2015	Approved
Barry Zallen, Chief Medical Officer	Children's Hospital Integrated Care Organization (CHICO)	Understanding the Value of Pediatric Care	January 31, 2015	Approved
Keith Ericson, Assistant Professor of Markets	Boston University School of Management and National Bureau of Economic Research	Understanding Insurance, Provider Networks, and Outcomes	January 31, 2015	Approved
Patricia Robinson, Ph.D. Student	Duke University	Physician Agency Across Payers	January 31, 2015	Approved

MA APCD Applications for 2014

Applicant	Organization	Project Title	Close Date	Status
David Goodman, Professor of Pediatrics and of Health Policy	The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice	A Population-Based Study Assessing Regional Variation in Newborn Care and Outcomes, Including the Risk of NICU Admission	November 20, 2014	Approved
Robert Town and Elena Prager, Associate Professor / PhD Candidate	University of Pennsylvania -- Wharton School	The Effect of Limited and Tiered Provider Networks on Utilization, Quality, and Cost of Care	November 20, 2014	Approved
Peter Amico, PhD, Research Economist, Program on Health Care Financing and Payment, and Gregory Pope, MS, Director, Program on Health Care Financing and Payment	RTI International	State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative Evaluation: Independent Evaluation of the Group Insurance Commission's (GIC) Integrated-Risk Bearing Organization (IRBO)	Oct. 20, 2014	Approved
Susan Parsons, MD, MRP, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine; Medical Director	Tufts Medical Center	Cost Effectiveness of Novel Oncolytics in Newly Diagnosed and Hodgkin Lymphoma: External Validation Study Using APCD	Oct. 20, 2014	Approved
Chrysalyne Schmults, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor of Dermatology	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Skin Cancer Expenditure and Equity Analysis	Oct. 20, 2014	Approved
Peter Amico, PhD, Research Economist, Program on Health Care Financing and Payment, and Gregory Pope, MS, Director, Program on Health Care Financing and Payment	RTI International	State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative Evaluation: Independent Evaluation of the Group Insurance Commission's (GIC) Integrated-Risk Bearing Organization (IRBO)	August 25, 2014	Approved
Kenneth D. Mandl, Professor	Childrens Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical Center	Network Analysis of Providers and Shared Patients	August 25, 2014	Approved
Dan Gilden, President	JEN Associates, Inc.	Quality of Care in Recipients of Injectable Antipsychotics and Other Treatments for Schizophrenia	July 24, 2014	Approved
Natalia Olchanski, Project Director	Tufts Medical Center	Best opportunities for improving Massachusetts health within budget constraints	June 26, 2014	Approved
Pranav Mehta, MHA, SVP Product and Massachusetts Market	Harvard Pilgrim Health Care	SVP Product and Massachusetts Market Supplementary document: Research Methodology Summary (PDF)	May 22, 2014	Approved
Stacey Eccleston, Implementation and Research Leader	Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3)	ECR Analytics: Price and Quality Transparency	May 22, 2014	Approved
Ariel Pakes, PhD; Katherine Ho, PhD; Mark Shepard and Karen Stockley	Harvard University, Columbia University and the National Bureau of Economic Research	Prices, Incentives, and Hospital-Physician Integration in Health Care	May 22, 2014	Approved
Meredith Rosenthal PhD, Professor of Health Economics and Policy	Harvard School of Public Health	Will the Academic Innovations Collaborative Increase the Value of Primary Care and Improve Providers' and Trainees' Experiences?	May 22, 2014	Approved
Timothy Layton, PhD Candidate	Boston University	Competition Among Private Medicare Managed Care Plans	May 22, 2014	Approved
Lisa M. Lines, MPH and PhD Candidate and Arlene Ash, PhD	University of Massachusetts Medical School	Outpatient Emergency Department Utilization: Prevalence, Predictive Models, and Performance	May 22, 2014	Approved
Stacey Eccleston, Implementation and Research Leader	Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3)	ECR Analytics: Price and Quality Transparency	April 24, 2014	Approved
Joel Weissman, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Understanding High Cost Surgical Patients using Episode Bundles	April 24, 2014	Approved
Eric Roberts, PhD Candidate	Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health	Do Commercial MCO's Influence Physicians' Incentives to Accept Medicaid Patients?	February 28, 2014	Approved
Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA, MSc and Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH	Harvard Medical School	The Impact of Payment Reform on Physician Referrals, Patient Flows, and Health Care Costs	February 24, 2014	Approved

MA APCD Applications for 2013

Applicant	Organization	Project Title	Close Date	Status
Therese Fitzgerald, PhD, MSW, Director	Women's Health Policy and Advocacy Program	Sex Differences in the Utilization of “No-cost” Preventive Services Post Affordable Care Act (ACA) Implementation – Findings from a Case Study of Massachusetts Claims Data	December 19, 2013	Approved
Roy H Perlis, MD MSc, Director of MGH Psychiatry Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics	Massachusetts General Hospital	Medication adverse effect burden scores to stratify risk for hospital readmission	November 22, 2013	Approved
Keith Marzilli Ericson, Assistant Professor of Markets	Boston University School of Management	Understanding Insurance, Provider Networks, and Outcomes	October 25, 2013	Approved
Jianjing Lin, Doctoral student	University of Arizona	The Impact of Price Transparency on Health Care Expenditures	October 25, 2013	Approved
Vinay Seth Mohta, Chief Technology Officer	Kyruus, Inc.	Promoting Transparent Clinical Expertise	August 22, 2013	Approved
Dr. Arnold Epstein and Dr Amy Boutwell	Harvard School of Public Health	Analysis of the Massachusetts All-Payer Claims Database to Describe the Epidemiology of Readmissions	April 22, 2013	Approved
Ashish K. Jha, Professor of Health Policy and Management	Harvard School of Public Health	Understanding High-Cost Patients in Massachusetts	April 21, 2013	Approved
Puneet Batra, Chief Data Scientist	Kyruus, Inc.	Understanding Provider Expertise and Behavior	February 23, 2013	Withdrawn
Robin Clark, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation	Center for Health Policy and Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School	Massachusetts Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative Shared Savings Project	February 23, 2013	Approved
Amanda E. Kowalski, Assistant Professor of Economics and Faculty Research Fellow	Yale University and the National Bureau of Economic Research/UPENN	Maternal and Paternal Health and Children’s Healthcare Access and Use	February 23, 2013	Approved
Meredith B. Rosenthal, PhD, Professor of Health Economics and Policy	Harvard School of Public Health	Will the Academic Innovations Collaborative Increase the Value of Primary Care and Improve Providers’ and Trainees’ Experiences?	January 18, 2013	Approved
Robin Clark, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation	Massachusetts Health Quality Partners	Practice Pattern Variation Analysis (PPVA) Program	February 29, 2013	Approved
Hermik Babakhanlou-Chase, Director, Office of Data Analytics and Decision Support	Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services	Substance Abuse Treatment Needs and Services Gap Analysis	November 24, 2012	Approved
Amanda E. Kowalski, Assistant Professor of Economics and Faculty Research Fellow	National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University	The Effects of Fragmentation in Health Care	December 24, 2012	Approved
Robin Clark, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation	MassHealth, Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and University of Massachusetts Medical School	Child Health Care Quality Measurement - Core Measure Set Testing	March 23, 2013	Approved
Wenjun Li, PhD, Director of Health Geography Lab, Associate Professor of Medicine	Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School	Health Care Reform and Disparities in the Care and Outcomes of Trauma Patients	September 24, 2012	Approved
Marlene Anderka, Director, Massachusetts Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention	Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention	Surveillance of Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs)	September 24, 2012	Approved
Mark Paskowsky, Director of Surveillance and Evaluation	Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program	Utilization of tobacco treatment in Massachusetts to quit smoking	September 24, 2012	Approved
Noelle Cocoros, DSc, MPH, Director of Research and Evaluation	Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Infectious Disease	STD, HIV, and Viral Hepatitis Testing, Treatment, and Screening Trends	January 19, 2013	Approved
Thomas Land, Director, Office of Statistics and Evaluation, Bureau of Community Health and Prevention	Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Community Health and Prevention	Evaluation of Mass in Motion and Community Transformation Grants	September 24, 2012	Approved
Robin Clark, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation	Center for Health Policy and Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School	Patient Centered Medical Home Evaluation	August 24, 2012	Approved
Jean Yang, Chief Financial Officer	The Massachusetts Health Connector	Risk Adjustment per Affordable Care Act	July 23, 2012	Approved

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