Fraser, AdrianaChu, JunDemond, Marlayna2025-06-172025-06-172025-05-02Fraser, Adriana. “UMBC’s CIDER Program Supports New Hilltop Institute-Led Medicaid Study, Other Cross-Collaborative Projects” UMBC News. May 2, 2025. https://umbc.edu/stories/cider-program-hilltop-medicaid-study/.http://hdl.handle.net/11603/38898Photographer is Demond, Marlayna. headshots photos courtesy of Chu, Jun and The Hilltop InstituteUMBC researchers are collaborating on a study that takes a closer look at specific diagnosis coding patterns that focus on societal factors that potentially influence the health of Maryland’s Medicaid recipients. Morgan Henderson, director of analytics and research at UMBC’s The Hilltop Institute, and Jun Chu, assistant professor of public health, are among the five cross-collaborative teams selected to receive funding from UMBC’s Center and Institute Departmentally-Engaged Research (CIDER) program. Henderson and Chu’s CIDER-supported project will investigate potential “z code” patterns of the state’s Medicaid recipients. Z codes are a set of diagnosis codes that refer to factors influencing a patient’s health status beyond diseases or injuries, called social determinants of health.5 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.Researchpublic healthUMBC Earth and Space Institute (ESI)UMBC Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) IIUMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering DepartmentUMBC Center for Space Sciences and Technology (CSST) / Center for Research and Exploration in Space Sciences & Technology II (CRSST II)UMBC Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST)Anin PuthukkudyVanderlei MartinsJessica SuttonTejas GokhaleThomas StanleyKaur KullmanAlan ShermanRoberto YusEnis GolaszewskiMorgan HendersonJun ChuVenkatesh SrinivasanTyler JosephsonDon EngelA. All Hilltop Institute (UMBC) WorksText