Out-of-Pocket Payment for Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Among Commercially Insured in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical guidelines increasingly recommended ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) for hypertension diagnosis and management. Yet, ABPM is used infrequently in the United States, possibly because of low insurance coverage and high patient costs. We sought to analyze out-of-pocket payments (OPPs) for ABPM among privately insured patients.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis using IBM® MarketScan® commercial claims of beneficiaries aged ≥18 years receiving ABPM from January 2012 to December 2018. The date of first ABPM claim (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System codes 93784, 93786, 93788, or 93790) was considered the index date. Patients with 12 months of continuous enrollment preindex and 30-day postindex were included. Per beneficiary OPP was

SUBMITTER: Desai R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7608520 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature