Impairment Types and Combinations Among Adolescents and Young Adults with Disabilities: Colorado 2014-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Understanding the types of functional challenges faced by adolescents and young adults with disabilities (AYA-WD) can help payers, clinicians, community-based service providers, and policymakers recognize and meet needs. This paper describes state-level prevalence rates for 1) AYA-WD overall and for 2) impairment types singly and in combinations; and 3) examines how rates may differ between those insured by Medicaid versus commercial insurance.

Methods

This descriptive study uses Colorado's All Payer Claims Dataset 2014-2018 to identify insured 10- to 26-year-olds (Medicaid only: 333,931; commercially only: 392,444). It then applies the previously validated Children with Disabilities Algorithm (CWDA) and its companion, the Diagnosis-to-Impairment-Type Algorithm (DI

SUBMITTER: Chien AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11056312 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature