Estimates of healthcare spending for preterm and low-birthweight infants in a commercially insured population: 2008–2016

Estimates of healthcare spending for preterm and low-birthweight infants in a commercially insured population: 2008–2016

The growth in healthcare spending is an important topic in the United States, and preterm and low-birthweight infants have some of the highest healthcare expenditures of any patient population. We performed a retrospective cohort study of spending in this population using a large, national claims da...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of perinatology 2020-07, Vol.40 (7), p.1091-1099
Hauptverfasser: Beam, Andrew L., Fried, Inbar, Palmer, Nathan, Agniel, Denis, Brat, Gabriel, Fox, Kathe, Kohane, Isaac, Sinaiko, Anna, Zupancic, John A. F., Armstrong, Joanne
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Sprache:eng
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Birth Weight
Expenditures
Female
Gestation
Gestational age
Health care
Health care industry
Health Expenditures
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature
Infants
Insurance industry
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Medical care, Cost of
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Neonatology
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Pediatric Surgery
Pediatrics
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Outcome
Pregnancy, Multiple
Premature Birth
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
Retrospective Studies
Science & Technology
United States
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Zusammenfassung:The growth in healthcare spending is an important topic in the United States, and preterm and low-birthweight infants have some of the highest healthcare expenditures of any patient population. We performed a retrospective cohort study of spending in this population using a large, national claims database of commercially insured individuals. A total of 763,566 infants with insurance coverage through Aetna, Inc. for the first 6 months of post-natal life were included, and received approximately $8.4 billion (2016 USD) in healthcare services. Infants with billing codes indicating preterm status (
ISSN:0743-8346
1476-5543
DOI:10.1038/s41372-020-0635-z