ExpandMetformin use is correlated with a decreased risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s in type 2 diabetic patients.
ExpandTelehealth visits were, on average, consistently billed at a lower level of service than office visits of the same type, with one exception. New patient specialty telehealth visits were billed at LOS 5 slightly more frequently than office visits of the same type.
ExpandWhile the rates of outpatient, emergency, and hospital encounters for mental health have decreased, rates for female adolescents remain above pre-pandemic levels.
ExpandType 2 diabetic patients on Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage see similar A1C control and rates of retinopathy. Patients on Medicare Advantage are slightly less likely (11%) to have a lower extremity amputation.
ExpandSimilar to reports by the CDC, COVID-19 infections and subsequent ED visits and hospitalizations are rising again.
ExpandThe proportion of amalgam fillings in posterior teeth decreased more than 73% from 2017 to 2022.
ExpandFentanyl testing rate up to nearly 14% of overdose ED encounters, still lags behind opiate testing.
ExpandOverall age at breast cancer diagnosis has remained fairly steady since 2018, but there is wide variability in average age at diagnosis between racial and ethnic groups.
ExpandMore than 60% of patients with cystic fibrosis who died in 2022 were 60 years of age or older.
ExpandPatients receive a take-home buprenorphine prescription at fewer than 8% of ED encounters related to opioid use disorder and at fewer than 2% of ED encounters related to opioid overdose when those encounters don’t result in an admission.
ExpandSeveral types of cancer and many chronic diseases are frequently diagnosed within a year of a patient’s first Medicare visit.
ExpandPatients prescribed both opioids and pregabalin are at a 42% greater risk of developing opioid use disorder (OUD) than patients prescribed only opioids.
ExpandChildren who have turned two years old since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are more likely to experience speech delays than children who turned two before the pandemic.
ExpandDespite coding changes to reduce documentation burden, providers are writing longer notes than they did three years ago.
ExpandSame-specialty in-person follow-up in the 90 days following an appointment was more common for in-person visits than telehealth visits.
ExpandADHD medications are prescribed about 60% of the time within 30 days of an initial ADHD visit both for telehealth and in-person visits.
ExpandEven without a history of depression, mothers with ADHD are at an increased risk of being diagnosed with postpartum depression than mothers without ADHD.
ExpandPrenatal depression is associated with a 54.9% increase in risk of autism spectrum disorders in children.
ExpandPediatric patients who received the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine had lower rates of COVID-19-related emergency visits compared to children who had not received any COVID-19 vaccine.
ExpandAfter an initial myocardial infarction, patients prescribed a beta blocker did not show improvement in the rate of subsequent myocardial infarction within the next year.
