Andrews AL, Brinton DL, Simpson KN, et al. - In this retrospective analysis of 2013–2014 Truven Health Medicaid data, researchers sought to perform a longitudinal examination of the asthma medication ratio (AMR) in Medicaid-funded children with asthma. For a cohort of children with asthma, pharmacy and medical claims were analyzed. Two hundred fourteen thousand four hundred fifty-two eligible children, mean age 7.8 years, were identified. The authors discovered that AMR is a reliable predictor of exacerbations in this analysis of Medicaid-insured children with asthma. This will inform the implementation of an AMR-based risk assessment and communication intervention.