Journal article
Interventional differences among Huntington's disease patients by disease progression in commercial and medicaid populations
Journal of Huntington's disease, Vol.3(4), pp.355-363
2014
DOI: 10.3233/JHD-140124
PMID: 25575957
Abstract
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that spans distinct disease stages over 15-20 years. Various interventions are available which may allow patients to live outside of a nursing home for a longer time. However, little is known about use of these interventions by disease stage and by insurance type.
We compared use of interventions among early, middle and late stages of HD in commercial (C) and Medicaid (M) health insurance populations.
HD patients (ICD-9-CM 333.4) were identified from Thomson Reuters' MarketScan C and M database (2002-2009) and hierarchically grouped into disease stages based upon the presence of defining clinical markers.
A total of 1,272 HD patients (752/520 C/M) were identified. While stage distribution was nearly uniform in the C database - 34.0/35.5/34.0% (early/middle/late stage) - in the M population the majority were late stage (74.0%). Overall mean age was similar between C and M populations. Among late-stage patients, more M patients resided in a nursing home (M:73.8% v. C:40.6%) and received hospice care (M:18.4% v. C:11.3%). Physical therapy (PT) and home assistance were the most frequent interventions used by middle-stage patients, however more C patients received PT (C:64.0% v. M:37.1%) while more M patients received home assistance (M:75.3% v. C:53.2%). Among late-stage patients, PT was also higher in the C population (56.3% v. 48.3%). More M patients had assistive devices at home in both middle (M:25.8% v. C:9.7%) and late stages (M:35.6% v.C:23.4%).
Apparent interventional differences emerged which varied by disease stage and insurance type.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Interventional differences among Huntington's disease patients by disease progression in commercial and medicaid populations
- Creators
- Karen E Anderson - MedStar Georgetown University HospitalVictoria DivinoMitch DeKovenDouglas Langbehn - University of IowaJohn H Warner - CHDI FoundationJoseph Giuliano - CHDI FoundationWon Chan Lee - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of Huntington's disease, Vol.3(4), pp.355-363
- DOI
- 10.3233/JHD-140124
- PMID
- 25575957
- ISSN
- 1879-6397
- eISSN
- 1879-6400
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984293754002771
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