Social Needs Identified by Diagnostic Codes in Privately Insured U.S. Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The relationships between healthcare use and social needs are not fully understood. In 2015, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision coding introduced voluntary Z codes for social needs‒related healthcare encounters. This study evaluated early national patterns of Z codes in privately insured adults.

Methods

In 2021, the authors conducted a case-control analysis of national commercial health payer claims from 2016 to 2019. Among adults with ≥6 months of continuous enrollment and ≥1 medical claims, patients with any assigned Z codes were defined as cases. Controls were selected through stratified random sampling. Z codes were organized under 3 categories: socioeconomic, community/social, and environmental.

Results

Of 29.5 million adults, 5

SUBMITTER: Liss DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10286127 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature