Table 3 Unadjusted healthcare utilization in stage 3–5 NDD-CKD Patients by stage, medicare and commercially insured (MarketScan) datasets
Medicarea | Commercially insured | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anemia, CKD stage | Non-anemia, CKD stage | Anemia, CKD stage | Non-anemia, CKD stage | |||||||||
Healthcare utilization | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Number of claims, PPY | ||||||||||||
Hospitalizations | 0.83 | 1.03 | 1.30 | 0.41 | 0.60 | 0.68 | 0.56 | 0.65 | 0.90 | 0.22 | 0.35 | 0.49 |
ED visits | 0.72 | 0.78 | 0.85 | 0.48 | 0.56 | 0.61 | 0.58 | 0.52 | 0.66 | 0.32 | 0.39 | 0.48 |
SNF admissions | 0.50 | 0.59 | 0.78 | 0.19 | 0.30 | 0.36 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Hospice admissions | 0.24 | 0.29 | 0.41 | 0.09 | 0.14 | 0.25 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Outpatient visits | 30.87 | 33.09 | 33.99 | 23.48 | 25.01 | 25.26 | 31.28 | 32.46 | 34.34 | 20.08 | 22.43 | 24.24 |
Length of hospitalization, all patients (days) | ||||||||||||
Mean | 4.66 | 5.75 | 7.46 | 2.13 | 3.30 | 3.67 | 2.48 | 2.52 | 3.22 | 0.82 | 1.20 | 1.89 |
Median | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Length of hospitalization, hospitalized patients (days) | ||||||||||||
Mean | 11.92 | 12.68 | 14.70 | 8.76 | 10.33 | 10.58 | 11.39 | 10.25 | 10.64 | 7.52 | 7.00 | 8.50 |
Median | 7.00 | 8.00 | 8.00 | 5.00 | 6.00 | 6.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 3.00 |
Physician visits, PPY | ||||||||||||
Nephrologist | 1.31 | 3.00 | 3.63 | 1.05 | 2.01 | 1.82 | 1.16 | 2.31 | 2.39 | 0.88 | 1.70 | 1.42 |
Cardiologist | 3.04 | 3.15 | 2.98 | 2.36 | 2.56 | 2.55 | 0.94 | 0.98 | 0.88 | 0.68 | 0.78 | 0.63 |
Hematologist | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 0.44 | 0.11 | 0.13 | 0.13 |
Endocrinologist | 0.38 | 0.41 | 0.34 | 0.35 | 0.37 | 0.31 | 0.33 | 0.31 | 0.32 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.22 |
PCP | 9.78 | 9.98 | 10.04 | 7.71 | 7.99 | 7.81 | 5.24 | 5.39 | 5.19 | 4.01 | 4.13 | 4.10 |