Oral Cancer Prevalence, Mortality, and Costs in Medicaid and Commercial Insurance Claims Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study compared prevalence, incidence, mortality rates, treatment costs, and risk factors for oral and oropharyngeal cancer (OC/OPC) between two large United States adult cohorts in 2012-2019.

Methods

Medicaid and commercial claims data came from the IBM Watson Health MarketScan Database. Logistic regression analyses estimated incidence and risk factors for OC/OPC. Mortality was calculated by merging deceased individuals' files with those of the existing cancer cohort. Summing costs of outpatient and inpatient services determined costs.

Results

Prevalence of OC/OPC in Medicaid enrollees decreased each year (129.8 cases per 100,000 enrollees in 2012 to 88.5 in 2019); commercial enrollees showed a lower, more stable prevalence (64.7 per 100,000 in 2012 an

SUBMITTER: Tranby EP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9437560 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature