Disparities in health condition diagnoses among aging transgender and cisgender medicare beneficiaries, 2008-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The objective of this research is to provide national estimates of the prevalence of health condition diagnoses among age-entitled transgender and cisgender Medicare beneficiaries. Quantification of the health burden across sex assigned at birth and gender can inform prevention, research, and allocation of funding for modifiable risk factors.

Methods

Using 2009-2017 Medicare fee-for-service data, we implemented an algorithm that leverages diagnosis, procedure, and pharmacy claims to identify age-entitled transgender Medicare beneficiaries and stratify the sample by inferred gender: trans feminine and nonbinary (TFN), trans masculine and nonbinary (TMN), and unclassified. We selected a 5% random sample of cisgender individuals for comparison. We descriptively ana

SUBMITTER: Hughto JMW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040837 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature